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		kgwxd on Oct 21, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Lucee – A lightweight dynamic scripting language f... All these cute little names are getting old, why not just call it JavaScript?

bdcravens on Oct 21, 2016 | [–]

It's an open source implementation of ColdFusion, which runs on the JVM.

aepearson on Oct 21, 2016 | [–]

Because it's completely unrelated to Javascript...

zokier on Oct 21, 2016 | [–]

It is not completely unrelated to JavaScript. CFScript is (based upon/implementation of) ECMAScript, which is in turn closely related to JS.

aepearson on Oct 21, 2016 | | [–]

Touchè! haha

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