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2nd November 2007 - Link Blog

The Story Behind ES4. If you’re scratching your head at the recent eruption of acrimony surrounding ECMAScript 4 (the next standardised version of JavaScript) Neil Mix has a relatively easy to follow catch-up post.

Posted 2nd November 2007 at 6:15 am

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This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 2nd November 2007.

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