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'''JSON''', which stands for "'''J'''ava'''S'''cript '''O'''bject '''N'''otation", is a lightweight [[computer]] data interchange format. '''JSON''' has the advantage, over [[XML]], as a data interchange format in that it can be trivially parsed, by JavaScript, with JavaScript's built in [[eval]]() procedure. (This is important because of [[JavaScript]]'s ubiquitousness among [[web browser]]s.) '''JSON''' is JavaScript's [[object literal]] format.

The name can be misleading, as JSON is a language-independent text format. There is growing support for JSON in other languages through the use of lightweight 3rd-party packages. The list of supported languages includes [[ActionScript]], [[C|C programming language|C]], [[C#|C Sharp|C#]], [[ColdFusion]], [[E|E programming language|E]], [[Java|Java programming language|Java]], [[JavaScript]], [[ML|ML programming language|ML]], [[Ocaml|Objective CAML|Ocaml]], [[Perl]], [[PHP]], [[Python|Python programming language|Python]], [[Rebol]], and [[Ruby|Ruby programming language|Ruby]].