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Isn't the entire point of the term ecmascript created to resolve this?

• fzzzy 2y ago
  Brendan Eich always used to say that ecmascript sounds like a skin disease.
  • deleted 2y ago
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  • troymc 2y ago
    Not to be confused with EczemaScript or AcneScript.
    • evanmoran 2y ago
      It sounds like you’ve come down with the elusive humor monad. To prevent state mutation be sure to bind once a day with OCaml: https://ocaml.org/docs/monads https://ocaml.org/docs/monads
• calibas 2y ago
  It prevents Oracle from suing, but everybody calls it JavaScript anyway...
  • that_guy_iain 2y ago
    And the fact Oracle didn't sue for trademark infringement on that or TypeScript which is often referred to as JavaScript is probably not going to help Oracle here. But I doubt Oracle cares either way.
    • nayuki 2y ago
      Nor did they sue ActionScript (Macromedia Flash's implementation of JavaScript), CoffeeScript (a separate language that compiles to JavaScript, and has a name very much evoking Java).
      • that_guy_iain 2y ago
        Did they even have the trademark for those two. AFIK They got it in 2010 when they bought Sun.
      • bawolff 2y ago
        I don't see any reason why that would matter. The name "actionscript" does not have the word "java" in it. The relavent part is they didn't sue anyone using the name "javascript". Even if they had a valid trademark (which i doubt) that doesn't prevent anyone from selling a similar product under a different name.
        • nayuki 2y ago
          I was replying to that_guy_iain, who pointed out that Oracle didn't sue Microsoft for TypeScript. Notice that TypeScript does not have the word "Java" in it either.
      • anthk 2y ago
        There's are tons of libre licensed Java JVM's which names related to coffee.
  • graemep 2y ago
    Which is evidence that Javascript is now a generic term.
• paxys 2y ago
  Ecmascript was coined by ECMA International when they published the JS standard just to cover their ass and not get sued by Sun. It was never intended to be a name for the language, and has never been treated as such.
  • BrendanEich 2y ago
    That's right -- Sun refused to donate the JavaScript tm to ECMA (now Ecma), MS jumped in and offered "JScript" which no one wanted, so the standard ended up with the ECMAScript name (still five first letters all capitalized), which also no one wanted.