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It was originally called LiveScript if I remember correctly, which was a beautiful and descriptive name. But then they renamed it to JavaScript for some reason.
by mylittlepony 14y ago
It was originally called LiveScript if I remember correctly, which was a beautiful and descriptive name. But then they renamed it to JavaScript for some reason.
- flomo 14y agoAgreed, LiveScript was a very good name. I'm curious who owns the LiveScript trademark, if anyone. If the Mozilla Foundation inherited it from Netscape/AOL, they should give it to ECMA. At this point, the association with Java is probably more of a negative. (The most popular web browser can't even use the JavaScript trademark, due to totally unrelated events from 15 years ago. IMO a rebranding would still be feasible.)
- jaredsohn 14y agoI don't know if they have a trademark for it or not, but a quick Google shows that a CoffeeScript-like language with that name exists.