JavaScript and Java

[Gregc.]

Hi

Is the syntax for JavaScript the same for Java?

Greg

 

[Andrew Thompson]

Is the syntax for JavaScript the same for Java?

No, they are different languages. (Though some of the
code and method names can look similar).

(moments later..)
Actually, now that I check the definition of 'syntax',
I'll need to ease back from the first answer.

The syntax of Java and JavaScript has a lot of
similarities, but probably no more than the similarities
common to any two randonly chosen, high level,
OO languages.

Andrew T.

 

[Alex Hunsley]

> Hi
>
> Is the syntax for JavaScript the same for Java?
>
> Greg

There's this site called "Google"....
Searching for "java versus javascript" is probably a good idea.

 

[Gregc.]

There's this site called "Google"....
Searching for "java versus javascript" is probably a good idea.

Yes, I use a thing called "Google" regularly

 

[Gregc.]

No, they are different languages. (Though some of the
code and method names can look similar).

(moments later..)
Actually, now that I check the definition of 'syntax',
I'll need to ease back from the first answer.

The syntax of Java and JavaScript has a lot of
similarities, but probably no more than the similarities
common to any two randonly chosen, high level,
OO languages.

Thankyou.

 

[Lasse Reichstein Nielsen]

Is the syntax for JavaScript the same for Java?

No.
They have a lot of similarities, probably because they both
took the basic syntax from the C language (or from another
language that took it from C).

Java and JavaScript has less in common that Java and C++
(or Java and C#, or C# and C++, or ...), mainly because
JavaScript is not a class based language like the other.

For the basic flow control statements (if, for, while, do),
which have nothing to do with being class-based or not,
the languages are much closer. If you can read one, you can
probably read another.

/L

 

[John W. Kennedy]

No.
They have a lot of similarities, probably because they both
took the basic syntax from the C language (or from another
language that took it from C).

There are some aspects of JavaScript that were taken from Java, such as
putting the standard mathematical functions into a name space called
Math (though in the case of Java, the name space is in the form of a
class, and in the case of JavaScript, it is in the form of an object).

 

[tri]

Hi
Greg

Most of the syntax for JavaScript is same as Java. There are many
differences
Like:-
In JavaScript we compare two strings for equality with ==
whereas,
In Java we compare two strings with equals() function.


Trilochan Singh.

 

[Oliver Wong]

Is the syntax for JavaScript the same for Java?

They are different. One example of a difference: "class" is a reserved
word in Java, but not in JavaScript.

- Oliver

 

[Oliver Wong]

They are different. One example of a difference: "class" is a reserved
word in Java, but not in JavaScript.

Moments after posting this, I find out that "class" is a "future
reserved word" in JavaScript, for the purpose of possible extensions. So
I'll rephrase the difference as:

"public class Foo {}" (without the quotes) is a legal Java compilation unit,
but not a legal JavaScript compilation unit.

- Oliver