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It is unfortunate that "ECMAScript" is simply a terrible name. I understand why the term is used, but that doesn't make it inherently good, easy to say, or memo
by Someone1234 9y ago
It is unfortunate that "ECMAScript" is simply a terrible name. I understand why the term is used, but that doesn't make it inherently good, easy to say, or memorable.
Fortunately the ES shorthand is more workable (e.g. ES6, ES2017, etc).
- meta_AU 9y agoek ma script? It isn't too hard to say.
- jessaustin 9y agoWe should just shorten that to eichscript.
- propelol 9y agoWe should just call it JS. That way the filename extension still makes sense.
- slavak 9y ago> 1995 - Brendan Eich reads up on every mistake ever made in designing a programming language, invents a few more, and creates LiveScript. Later, in an effort to cash in on the popularity of Java the language is renamed JavaScript. Later still, in an effort to cash in on the popularity of skin diseases the language is renamed ECMAScript. From the brilliant "A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages": http://james-iry.blogspot.co.il/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and-mostly-wrong.html http://james-iry.blogspot.co.il/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and... .
- gnulinux 9y agoI can't see what's wrong with ECMAScript. ['ek.ma] script. Javascript is just as long.
- mschuetz 9y agoECMAScript sounds like a disease and it's unpleasant to pronounce.
- baby 9y agoTLS has the same problem. Everybody knows SSL and everybody wants to keep saying SSL.