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===Origin of Syntax===

Brendan Eich summarized the ancestry of the syntax in the first paragraph of the [http://hepunx.rl.ac.uk/~adye/jsspec11/intro.htm#1006028 JavaScript 1.1] specification as follows:

{{"|JavaScript borrows most of its syntax from [[Java_(Programming_language)Java programming language|Java]], but also inherits from [[Awk]] and [[Perl]], with some indirect influence from [[Self_programming_language|Self]] in its object prototype system.}}

===Variables===