[DC LoCo] thoughtful tech commentary at the washington post [silverlight]

[Kenneth Stailey]

--- On Mon, 11/8/10, Luke Faraone <luke at faraone.cc> wrote:

> Silverlight provides a usable alternative to Oracle Java
> for web
> applications that cannot be written efficiently or
> effectively in
> JavaScript. 

JavaScript is a dialect of ECMAscript which has absolutely nothing to do with Java.  

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMAScript