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Re:Firefox Experiments I Would Have Liked to Try by gpm on Monday March 04, 2019 @05:47PM (#19306435)
> A lot of people think that JScript and JavaScript are different but similar languages. That's not the case. They are just different names for the same language, and the reason the names are different was to get around trademark issues.

Douglas Crockford via Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JScript

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Re:Firefox Experiments I Would Have Liked to Try by ddoolin on Tuesday March 05, 2019 @12:07PM (#19312027)
Yes, and the following paragraph goes on to note differences and even calls his statement "not completely true". At one point it may have been more true than it is now.
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