How Marketing Changed OOP In JavaScript

Even though JavaScript’s name was coined from the Java language, the two languages are worlds apart. JavaScript has more in common with Lisp>) and Scheme>), sharing features such as first-class functions and lexical scoping.
JavaScript also borrows its prototypal inheritance from the Self>) language. This inheritance mechanism is perhaps what many — if not most — developers do not spend enough time to understand, mainly because it isn’t a requirement to start wor