Thanks for this link. It points to http://www.computer.org/csdl/mags/co/2012/02/mco2012020007.pdf http://www.computer.org/csdl/mags/co/2012/02/mco2012020007.p..

Thanks for this link. It points to http://www.computer.org/csdl/mags/co/2012/02/mco2012020007.pdf http://www.computer.org/csdl/mags/co/2012/02/mco2012020007.p... "When Netscape hired Brendan Eich in April 1995, he was told that he had 10 days to create and produce a working prototype of a programming language that would run in Netscape’s browser. Back then, the pace of Web innovation was furious, with Microsoft suddenly making the Internet the focus" and "[it] needed to be a silly little brother language." It seems it was important to implement the language quickly rather than try and make it too good.