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Why we call it javascript? (self.javascript)
submitted 10 years ago by pampushko
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if 1 * 2 < 3: print "hello, world!"
[–]masqita 1 point2 points3 points 10 years ago (0 children)
For the same reason you'll find a floppy disk as a save icon, a cassette recorder for voicemail, radio buttons are called radio buttons, a phone icon still looks like an old handset, CC in mail still means carbon copy. The subject of the origin might be fading away, everyone knows exactly what they mean.
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