AJAX Buzzword Reinvigorates Javascript

samuel4242 writes "Javascript may have been with us since the beginning of the browser, but it's going through a renaissance as companies like Google create Javascript-enabled tools like Google Maps . There's even a nice, newly coined acronym , AJAX for "Asynchronous Javascript and XML". A nice survey article from Infoworld interviews Javascript creator, Brendan Eich, who says that this is what he and Marc Andreessen planned from the beginning. Perhaps AJAX will finally deliver what Java promised. Perhaps it will really provide a solid way to distribute software seamlessly."

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Javascript is not java

[bharlan]

"Perhaps AJAX will finally deliver what Java promised."

Javascript and Java have nothing in common but four letters in their name, from a silly marketing decision by Netscape and Sun long ago.

Unfortunately, the alternative name that could have cleared up the confusion is impossible to pronounce: ECMAScript.