If I remember correctly Brendan Eich was originally promised that he could build Self for Netscape, but later due to various reasons had to change the syntax an

If I remember correctly Brendan Eich was originally promised that he could build Self for Netscape, but later due to various reasons had to change the syntax and all that. Also the popularity of javascript in the geekdom is in my recollection fairly recent phenomenon. It became interesting only after ajax, before that it was a leper like php.