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Could someone tell me why JavaScript and Java have similar names?

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Java and JavaScript isn’t related in any form, Java is an object-oriented programming language whereas JavaScript is a scripting language. While the name JavaScript was originated as a marketing deal between Sun corporation which developed Java and the inventor of JavaScript which is Netscape which combined its powerful browser with the Java runtime to create a scripting language which has similar syntaxes to java.

Originally it was named LiveScript, then it was renamed JavaScript.

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