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Is Javascript related to java

  1. True

  2. False
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B Correct answer
Explanation

JavaScript is not related to Java. The similarity in names was a marketing decision by Netscape in 1995 when JavaScript was created. Java is a statically-typed, class-based language, while JavaScript is dynamically-typed and prototype-based. They are fundamentally different languages.

AI explanation

False. Despite the similar name, JavaScript and Java are unrelated languages. JavaScript was created by Brendan Eich at Netscape and was named 'JavaScript' largely for marketing reasons during the mid-1990s Java hype, not because of any technical relationship. Java is a statically-typed, compiled (to bytecode) language for the JVM, while JavaScript is a dynamically-typed, interpreted scripting language originally built for browsers. They have different syntax philosophies, runtimes, and use cases beyond superficial C-style syntax similarities.

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