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Whereas Java and several other programming languages have a wide and rich range of datatypes and collections types, JavaScript only has a small number of primitive datatypes (Boolean, Number, String, ...

Trying to tie the lightweight C-like JavaScript interpreter to the unrelated heavyweight Java — an object-oriented, token-compiled language — by means of a similar name seemed like a good idea for ...