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  2. JavaScript - Wikipedia

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    JavaScript at Wikibooks. JavaScript ( / ˈdʒɑːvəskrɪpt / ), often abbreviated as JS, is a programming language and core technology of the Web, alongside HTML and CSS. 99% of websites use JavaScript on the client side for webpage behavior. [10] Web browsers have a dedicated JavaScript engine that executes the client code.

  3. List of programming languages by type - Wikipedia

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    Emacs Lisp. JavaScript and some dialects, e.g., JScript. Lua (embedded in many games) OpenCL (extension of C and C++ to use the GPU and parallel extensions of the CPU) OptimJ (extension of Java with language support for writing optimization models and powerful abstractions for bulk data processing) Perl. Pike.

  4. Interpreter (computing) - Wikipedia

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    A cross compiler can generate binary code for the user machine even if it has a different processor than the machine where the code is compiled. An interpreted program can be distributed as source code. It needs to be translated in each final machine, which takes more time but makes the program distribution independent of the machine's ...

  5. Compiled language - Wikipedia

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    Compiled language. A compiled language is a programming language whose implementations are typically compilers (translators that generate machine code from source code ), and not interpreters (step-by-step executors of source code, where no pre-runtime translation takes place). The term is somewhat vague.

  6. Just-in-time compilation - Wikipedia

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    In a bytecode-compiled system, source code is translated to an intermediate representation known as bytecode. Bytecode is not the machine code for any particular computer, and may be portable among computer architectures. The bytecode may then be interpreted by, or run on a virtual machine. The JIT compiler reads the bytecodes in many sections ...

  7. Programming language - Wikipedia

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    Programming language. The source code for a computer program in C. The gray lines are comments that explain the program to humans. When compiled and run, it will give the output "Hello, world!". A programming language is a system of notation for writing computer programs. [1]

  8. JavaScript engine - Wikipedia

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    A JavaScript engine is a software component that executes JavaScript code. The first JavaScript engines were mere interpreters, but all relevant modern engines use just-in-time compilation for improved performance. [1] JavaScript engines are typically developed by web browser vendors, and every major browser has one.

  9. High-level programming language - Wikipedia

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    Interpreted When code written in a language is interpreted, its syntax is read and then executed directly, with no compilation stage. A program called an interpreter reads each program statement, following the program flow, then decides what to do, and does it. A hybrid of an interpreter and a compiler will compile the statement into machine ...