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 JavaScript was created by Netscape's Brendan Eich in 1995. It was originally
-intended as a simpler scripting language for websites, complimenting the use of
+intended as a simpler scripting language for websites, complementing the use of
 Java for more complex web applications, but its tight integration with Web pages
 and built-in support in browsers has caused it to become far more common than
 Java in web frontends.