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A powerful, object-based, interpreted scripting language, created by Brendan Eich, most commonly embedded directly into HTML web pages to manage client-side interaction.
JavaScript is so beautiful and elegant it brings tears to my eyes. I love using it. It completes me as a person.
by Dan Fox June 24, 2003
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A computer programming language, provides a source of endless suffering for many poor middle-schoolers throughout the world (including myself).
"You have an assignment on javascript for summer break"
by stanley yelnats :') April 05, 2019
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"Can one of you get coffee in the kitchen going, please? If you don't know how to use the new machine, I have printed out a java script and stuck it in the kitchen. Just follow that and you'll be OK."
by The Crayon Kid September 21, 2017
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Programming Language, written to sit on a web server but be run on an unknown web *client*. Hence it often doesn't.
If people start writing it to meet w3c standards, and browsers contimue to try to implement w3c standards, there may be some hope for it in the distant future.
If people start writing it to meet w3c standards, and browsers contimue to try to implement w3c standards, there may be some hope for it in the distant future.
by nit-pick February 09, 2004
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A random assortment of functions and variables used to create special effects on web pages. Gernerally used only to impress people who don't care.
by BonddeMe May 08, 2003