I had a professor like that, he also was a signatory to the original ECMAscript standard. He also claims he came up with that name. Since they were spending to

I had a professor like that, he also was a signatory to the original ECMAscript standard. He also claims he came up with that name. Since they were spending too much time debating the name, he figured they'd call it that for now, and since it was such an awful name they would be sure to go back and change it.