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The desire for "Write Once Run Anywhere (WORA)" probably came from Smalltalk (Kaye, Goldberg, Ingalls) and was adopted by Java. Both Java and Javascript were in
by drallison 6y ago
The desire for "Write Once Run Anywhere (WORA)" probably came from Smalltalk (Kaye, Goldberg, Ingalls) and was adopted by Java. Both Java and Javascript were influenced by the Smalltalk language and system.
Wikipedia attributes the phrase to SUN Microsystems and Java but, with weasel words admits that the same idea was baked into UCSD Pascal.