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• Functions

• Async/await

• Objects

• Creating objects

• Methods

• Constructors

• Inheritance

• Exception handling

• Native functions and methods

• eval (expression)

• See also

• References

• Further reading

• External links

Brendan Eich summarized the ancestry of the syntax in the first paragraph of the JavaScript 1.1 specificationcite-ref-1[1]cite-ref-2[2] as follows:

JavaScript borrows most of its syntax from Java, but also inherits from Awk and Perl, with some indirect influence from Self in its object prototype system.

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