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Implementation of ECMAScript by Microsoft
JScript is Microsoft's legacy dialect of the ECMAScript standard that is used in Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser and HTML Applications, and as a standalone Windows scripting language. It is proprietary software. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: JScriptA 5-minute orientation
- Pick up a classic book: Mastering JavaScript and JScriptThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: ‘Window External’ jScript vulnerability in Internet Explorer 4Cited 0 times
- Go sideways: VBScriptA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Chakra (JavaScript engine)A closely related topic
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
📚 Books worth reading
Mastering JavaScript and JScriptJamie Jaworski · 1999
Microsoft Jscript .NET programmingJustin Rogers · 2002
Microsoft JScript.NETJustin Rogers · 2001
Webscripting unter WindowsRalph Steyer · 2000- 📕JScript.NET programmingErik Westermann · 2001
Microsoft Powershell, VBScript, and JScript bibleWilliam R. Stanek · 2009
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