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Re:Oak: A more portable alternative to C, powered by Brainfu... by jfim on Sunday July 26, 2020 @07:21AM (#23956237)
Not to be confused with Oak [0], the precursor of the Java programming language.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_(programming_language)

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Re:Oak: A more portable alternative to C, powered by Brainfu... by k__ on Sunday July 26, 2020 @09:46AM (#23957009)
Not to be confused with JavaScript, whoms percursor LiveScript should not be confused with LiveScript which was a successor of CoffeeScript, a Ruby inspired counterpart of JavaScript.
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Re:Oak: A more portable alternative to C, powered by Brainfu... by masswerk on Sunday July 26, 2020 @11:56AM (#23957976)
LiveScript is JavaScript, "JavaScript" was just a rebranding in a joint Sun-Netscape marketing effort, while other Netscape technology stuck to the "Live…" naming scheme, as in LiveWire or LiveBridge. When there was still a language attribute to script tags, "LiveScript" was happily accepted as a synonym for "JavaScript" (or, rather, the other way round).
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Re:Oak: A more portable alternative to C, powered by Brainfu... by k__ on Sunday July 26, 2020 @01:38PM (#23958674)
I know. There are two LiveScripts.
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Re:Oak: A more portable alternative to C, powered by Brainfu... by jmercouris on Sunday July 26, 2020 @12:09PM (#23958059)
Livescript was not a successor of CoffeeScript.
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