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The rapid growth of the Internet in the mid-1990s was the next major historic event in programming languages. By opening up a radically new platform for computer systems, the Internet created an opportunity for new languages to be adopted. In particular, the [[JavaScript]] programming language rose to popularity because of its early integration with the Netscape Navigator web browser. Various other scripting languages achieved widespread use in developing customized applications for web servers such as PHP. The 1990s saw no fundamental novelty in [[imperative language]]s, but much recombination and maturation of old ideas. This era began the spread of [[functional language]]s. A big driving philosophy was programmer productivity. Many [[rapid application development]] (RAD) languages emerged, which usually came with an [[integrated development environment]] (IDE), [[Garbage collection (computer science)|garbage collection]], and were descendants of older languages. All such languages were [[Object-oriented programming|object-oriented]]. These included [[Object Pascal]], Objective Caml (renamed [[OCaml]]), [[Visual Basic (classic)|Visual Basic]], and [[Java (programming language)|Java]]. Java in particular received much attention.
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