Nerdaphernalia » programming languages http://striderweb.com/nerdaphernalia "It's All Geek To Me" Wed, 21 Dec 2011 18:51:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 A Brief History of JavaScript http://striderweb.com/nerdaphernalia/2009/05/a-brief-history-of-javascript/ http://striderweb.com/nerdaphernalia/2009/05/a-brief-history-of-javascript/#comments Mon, 11 May 2009 16:03:30 +0000 Stephen R http://striderweb.com/nerdaphernalia/?p=249

1995 – Brendan Eich reads up on every mistake ever made in designing a programming language, invents a few more, and creates LiveScript. Later, in an effort to cash in on the popularity of Java the language is renamed JavaScript. Later still, in an effort to cash in on the popularity of skin diseases the language is renamed ECMAScript.

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