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Java and JavaScript are about the same as ham and hamster.
General Information about Item:
- Oral Folklore: joke
- English
- USA
Informant Data:
Azhar Hussain is a CS/Econ Double Major in the Class of 2019 from Dallas, TX.
Contextual Data:
Java and JavaScript are two programming languages. Java was created by James Gosling and his team in 1991. They modeled it after the C++ programming language. JavaScript was created by Brendan Eich in 1993 as a Web scripting language. Even though the two languages share a common prefix, there is no relation between the creators of the languages. There is also no relation between the purposes of both languages as explained below.
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Informant’s Comments:
Java and JavaScript are sometimes confused by novice programmers because they sound the same. In reality, they are very different in syntax and intended use. The parallel comparison is ham and hamster because although they share a common prefix, they are wholly different (Who would eat a hamster?)
Collector’s Comments:
These could be classified as proverbs because they are providing advice to novice programmers who may not know about the intricacies of languages such as Java and JavaScript.
Collector’s Name: Weiliang (Michael) Li
Tags/Keywords:
- java, javascript, language, syntax, novice, programmer