http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpiderMonkey_(JavaScript_engine) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpiderMonkey_(JavaScript_engine... >>> Eich "wrote JavaScript in ten

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]