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==Origins==
[[Brendan Eich]] summarized the ancestry of the [https://jsonlinecompiler.com/javascript/javascript-syntax/ syntax] in the first paragraph of the [https://jsonlinecompiler.com/javascript/javascript-introduction/ JavaScript 1.1] specification<ref>[http://hepunx.rl.ac.uk/~adye/jsspec11/intro.htm#1006028 JavaScript 1.1 specification]</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Chapter 1. Basic JavaScript|url=http://speakingjs.com/es5/ch01.html|access-date=2020-09-22|website=speakingjs.com}}</ref> as follows:
{{Quote|[https://jsonlinecompiler.com/javascript/javascript-introduction/ JavaScript] borrows most of its syntax from [[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.}}
 
==Basics==