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Small part of history of JavaScript: >In 1995, after 10 days of work, Brendan Eich created a scripting language for browsers. He called it Mocha. The language
by Lealen 5y ago
Small part of history of JavaScript:
>In 1995, after 10 days of work, Brendan Eich created a scripting language for browsers. He called it Mocha. The language was renamed several times over the course of just a couple of months, and was eventually given the name we know today, JavaScript. Brendan originally wanted to add support for the Schema programming language to the Netscape browser, but his superiors wanted the language available in their browser to be more like the then popular Java [1].
[1] Freely based on a description from book and wikipedia:
C. Saternos, ClientServer Web Apps with JavaScript and Java. O’Reilly Media, Inc., 2014.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript
- satyrnein 5y agoSmall typo, he originally wanted to support Scheme. I wonder where if the typo was introduced in your comment, or in the book, or in Wikipedia at the time (which was since corrected)!
- Lealen 5y agoThanks for noticing. It's probably my own typo, as I wrote this years ago for my thesis and I haven't caught it.