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The JavaScript Object Notation data format, or JSON for short, is derived from the literals of the JavaScript programming language. This makes JSON a subset of the JavaScript language. As a subset, JSON does not possess any additional features that the JavaScript language itself does not already possess. Although JSON is a subset of a programming language, it itself is not a programming language but, in fact, a data interchange format.
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Smith, B. (2015). Introducing JSON. In: Beginning JSON. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-0202-9_4
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