FAQ Topic - What does the future hold for ECMAScript?

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FAQ Topic - What does the future hold for ECMAScript?
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The ECMAScript Technical Committee is now working on the fourth
edition, the first implementation of which is JScript.NET. It
includes a compiler, allowing you to create standalone JScript
executables.

The fourth edition of ECMAScript will provide new features like
typed variables, and classes. More information can be found at:

http://www.mozilla.org/js/language/es4/index.html


http://msdn.microsoft.com/voices/scripting07142000.asp

or from microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.jscript


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[Randy Webb]

FAQ server said the following on 8/10/2006 7:00 PM:

The ECMAScript Technical Committee is now working on the fourth
edition, the first implementation of which is JScript.NET.

If that statement is anywhere close to being true (which I don't doubt
it is), then it is amazing that MS has the foresight to know what a
finished spec is going to say before that spec is finished so that they
can produce the "first implementation".