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→LiveScript, JavaScript, JScript, ECMAScript - What's in a Name?
A disagreement between Netscape and Microsoft over licensing ultimately led Microsoft to reverse engineer JavaScript and create their own version called JScript. Inevitably differences between the two variants of the language quickly appeared and linger to this day.
In order to bring some predictability to JavaScript , it was eventually standardized by the European Computer Manufacturers Association (ECMA). This standardized version of the language is, officially at least, referred to ECMAScript. In practice most people will always call it JavaScript, regardless of which implementation of the language they developing with, or browser they are targeting.
