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Lang/JavaScript/00DESCRIPTION

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 JavaScript is a registered trademark of [[Sun Microsystems]], Inc. It was used under license for technology invented and implemented by Netscape Communications and current entities such as the Mozilla Foundation.
 
-JavaScript has been born again, now that [[AJAX]] has come up. The meaning of this is simply that [[AJAX]] has shown that JavaScript is really still useful in a lot of domains and that (most) web pages that use it can be given a whole new life.
+Major browsers have generally implemented the features of ECMASScript 5 (ES5), and have started to adopt elements of ES6. 
+Updates to implementation of ES6 features are tabulated here: [https://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es6/ https://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es6/]
 
-There's a nice table on Wikipedia that shows which version of JavaScript is release in which version of a browser: [[wp:JavaScript#Versions]]
+Once largely confined to browser environments, and typically isolated from access to system resources, JavaScript (and particularly the cross-platform [https://nodejs.org/en/ Node.js runtime environment]) is now very widely used in server-side and application scripting environments, with full access to local file systems and other OS resources.
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+At the same time, mainly because of JavaScript's role in the web, there is a growing number of other languages which [https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/wiki/list-of-languages-that-compile-to-js compile to JavaScript].
 
 ==Citations==
 * [[wp:Javascript|Wikipedia:Javascript]]
-* [http://www.squarefree.com/shell/ JavaScript shell], can run many of the JavaScript examples here
+* [https://nodejs.org/en/ Node.js] Event-driven I/O server-side JavaScript environment based on V8
+* [https://www.npmjs.com npm – Node.js Package Manager] Claims to be the largest ecosystem of open source libraries in the world
+* [https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/releasenotes/InterapplicationCommunication/RN-JavaScriptForAutomation/Articles/Introduction.html OS X JavaScript for Applications] JavaScript as an OS X scripting language – supported by the Safari debugger
+* [https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Shells Other JavaScript shells] List maintained by Mozilla
+* [https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/wiki/list-of-languages-that-compile-to-js List of languages that compile to JS] maintained on Github by Jeremy Ashenas – author of CoffeeScript, Underscore and Backbone

Lang/JavaScript/Abundant,-deficient-and-perfect-number-classifications

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Lang/JavaScript/Amicable-pairs

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Lang/JavaScript/Averages-Mean-angle

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Lang/JavaScript/Bitmap-B-zier-curves-Cubic

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Lang/JavaScript/Call-an-object-method

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Lang/JavaScript/Catalan-numbers-Pascals-triangle

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Lang/JavaScript/Comments

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Lang/JavaScript/Equilibrium-index

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Lang/JavaScript/Fibonacci-word

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Lang/JavaScript/Find-the-last-Sunday-of-each-month

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Lang/JavaScript/Gaussian-elimination

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Lang/JavaScript/Harshad-or-Niven-series

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Lang/JavaScript/Image-convolution

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Lang/JavaScript/Letter-frequency

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Lang/JavaScript/Literals-String

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Lang/JavaScript/Magic-squares-of-odd-order

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Lang/JavaScript/Narcissistic-decimal-number

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Lang/JavaScript/Natural-sorting

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Lang/JavaScript/Nth

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Lang/JavaScript/Parsing-RPN-calculator-algorithm

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Lang/JavaScript/Partial-function-application

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Lang/JavaScript/Percentage-difference-between-images

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Lang/JavaScript/Phrase-reversals

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Lang/JavaScript/Ranking-methods

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Lang/JavaScript/Return-multiple-values

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Lang/JavaScript/Reverse-words-in-a-string

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Lang/JavaScript/Roots-of-unity

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Lang/JavaScript/S-Expressions

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Lang/JavaScript/Sequence-of-non-squares

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Lang/JavaScript/Set

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Lang/JavaScript/Short-circuit-evaluation

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Lang/JavaScript/Speech-synthesis

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Lang/JavaScript/Sum-multiples-of-3-and-5

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Lang/JavaScript/Temperature-conversion

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Lang/JavaScript/Test-a-function

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