James (my source was an insider in the Java team at Sun, pre-Marimba) wrote java.util.Date, which I had my one assistant (Ken Smith of Netscape) translate from

James (my source was an insider in the Java team at Sun, pre-Marimba) wrote java.util.Date, which I had my one assistant (Ken Smith of Netscape) translate from Java to C for JS's first Date object, regrets all around but it "made it look like Java". I wish James had been in favor of immutability in designing java.util.Date!