A brief history of JavaScript (deno.com)

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Netscape asked Brendan Eich to develop a scripting language that looks like Java, but be object oriented rather than class based.

I don't understand this part. Isn't object oriented also class based?? I mean that's the entire reason why classes exist, to create objects. Isn't it? How is this separated here?

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Object oriented languages can be either class based or prototype based. Java is class based, JS was back then prototype based

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Thanks, I see. I'll research and learn more about the differences. Thought this was an writing error and didn't research yet.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

The first fully-developed prototype-based OO language was Self, original Javascript seems quite similar.

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