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The Joe Walker Podcast

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JavaScript: A Family Tree of Languages

JavaScript was able to say things in a few lines that might have taken Java hundreds of lines. Both JavaScript and Java came from the C family by way of C++ in the case of Java. It had function, there's a keyword function, eight big letters. And it allowed you to declare a block of code that could be invoked and passed parameters and you get back a result.

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