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How does this link demonstrate that fact?

by thurn 15y ago

barumrho 15y ago
File extensions and timestamps? Not sure about 'original' though.
- agumonkey 15y ago
  js2 as in 'js2 the abandonned branch ES4' ? I love the author's nickname : Captain Abstraction http://www.webmasterkb.com/Uwe/Forum.aspx/javascript/35764/For-all-those-jQuery-fanboys http://www.webmasterkb.com/Uwe/Forum.aspx/javascript/35764/F...
  - DiabloD3 15y ago
    Huh, either way I seem to have found a lost piece of history on my travels through the web.
    - acqq 15y ago
      You should still change the wrong title.
DiabloD3 15y ago
I actually might be wrong about this being the original. Waldemar Horwat worked with Brenden Eich at Netscape and hacked on the JS impl in Netscape 2.0, but the dates are too late. If its not the original, what is it?
- tszming 15y ago
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpiderMonkey_(JavaScript_engine) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpiderMonkey_(JavaScript_engine... >>> Eich "wrote JavaScript in ten days" in 1995,[1] having been "recruited to Netscape with the promise of “doing Scheme” in the browser".[2] (The idea of using Scheme itself was abandoned when "engineering management [decided] that the language must ‘look like Java’".[2]) In fall 1996, Eich, needing to "pay off [the] substantial technical debt" left from the first year, "stayed home for two weeks to rewrite Mocha as the codebase that became known as SpiderMonkey".[1]
  - plam 15y ago
    sigh... the developer wanted to use Lisp, then management opted for Java. Typical.
- acqq 15y ago
  You linked obviously the much later code than what can be anything relevant for the first Javascript implementation in Netscape in nineties. If I understand it correctly, this is the experimental code that was supposed to be used in the research for a "big leap" in Javascript syntax considered by Mozilla around the middle of the previous decade. The keyword to search for can be Epimetheus, it appears in the sources you linked: http://www-archive.mozilla.org/js/language/Epimetheus.html http://www-archive.mozilla.org/js/language/Epimetheus.html http://discerning.com/burstproject.org/build/doc/constructs.html http://discerning.com/burstproject.org/build/doc/constructs.... 'Mozilla's implementation ("JavaScript 2.0", or "Epimetheus"): http://www.mozilla.org/js/language/Epimetheus.html http://www.mozilla.org/js/language/Epimetheus.html http://www.mozilla.org/js/language/js20/ http://www.mozilla.org/js/language/js20/ It (of course) has all features of Draft ECMAScript 4, and a few additions. It is not (to our knowledge) shipping in any product.'
  - pwpwp 15y ago
    If I understand it correctly, this is the experimental code that was supposed to be used in the research for a "big leap" in Javascript syntax considered by Mozilla around the middle of the previous decade. Yes, that's how I remember it too.

How does this link demonstrate that fact?

by thurn 15y ago

How does this link demonstrate that fact?

barumrho 15y ago

File extensions and timestamps? Not sure about 'original' though.

agumonkey 15y ago
js2 as in 'js2 the abandonned branch ES4' ? I love the author's nickname : Captain Abstraction http://www.webmasterkb.com/Uwe/Forum.aspx/javascript/35764/For-all-those-jQuery-fanboys http://www.webmasterkb.com/Uwe/Forum.aspx/javascript/35764/F...
- DiabloD3 15y ago
  Huh, either way I seem to have found a lost piece of history on my travels through the web.
  - acqq 15y ago
    You should still change the wrong title.

DiabloD3 15y ago

I actually might be wrong about this being the original. Waldemar Horwat worked with Brenden Eich at Netscape and hacked on the JS impl in Netscape 2.0, but the dates are too late. If its not the original, what is it?

tszming 15y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpiderMonkey_(JavaScript_engine) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpiderMonkey_(JavaScript_engine... >>> Eich "wrote JavaScript in ten days" in 1995,[1] having been "recruited to Netscape with the promise of “doing Scheme” in the browser".[2] (The idea of using Scheme itself was abandoned when "engineering management [decided] that the language must ‘look like Java’".[2]) In fall 1996, Eich, needing to "pay off [the] substantial technical debt" left from the first year, "stayed home for two weeks to rewrite Mocha as the codebase that became known as SpiderMonkey".[1]
- plam 15y ago
  sigh... the developer wanted to use Lisp, then management opted for Java. Typical.
acqq 15y ago
You linked obviously the much later code than what can be anything relevant for the first Javascript implementation in Netscape in nineties. If I understand it correctly, this is the experimental code that was supposed to be used in the research for a "big leap" in Javascript syntax considered by Mozilla around the middle of the previous decade. The keyword to search for can be Epimetheus, it appears in the sources you linked: http://www-archive.mozilla.org/js/language/Epimetheus.html http://www-archive.mozilla.org/js/language/Epimetheus.html http://discerning.com/burstproject.org/build/doc/constructs.html http://discerning.com/burstproject.org/build/doc/constructs.... 'Mozilla's implementation ("JavaScript 2.0", or "Epimetheus"): http://www.mozilla.org/js/language/Epimetheus.html http://www.mozilla.org/js/language/Epimetheus.html http://www.mozilla.org/js/language/js20/ http://www.mozilla.org/js/language/js20/ It (of course) has all features of Draft ECMAScript 4, and a few additions. It is not (to our knowledge) shipping in any product.'
- pwpwp 15y ago
  If I understand it correctly, this is the experimental code that was supposed to be used in the research for a "big leap" in Javascript syntax considered by Mozilla around the middle of the previous decade. Yes, that's how I remember it too.