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Brendan Eich

Posted Oct 27, 2010 23:19 UTC (Wed) by tialaramex (subscriber, #21167)
In reply to: A Firefox zero-day vulnerability by anselm
Parent article: A Firefox zero-day vulnerability

More specifically Brendan Eich. Here's a recent example of him defending himself

http://jwz.livejournal.com/1307198.html?thread=23007038#t...

I'm glad nobody is building entire platforms on top of any languages /I/ hacked together in less than fortnight, because lack of natural overflow from integers into BigNums is nothing compared to what you'd be stuck with if it was all on my shoulders.

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Brendan Eich

Posted Oct 28, 2010 0:39 UTC (Thu) by anselm (subscriber, #2796) [Link]

I think the name really says it all already. »Hey, let's call the thing JavaScript – Java is the big thing now and we'll just hang on to that for the ride! Who cares if the language is nothing like real Java.«

If they'd called their browser »Javigator« it might even still be there.

Brendan Eich

Posted Oct 28, 2010 14:34 UTC (Thu) by gerv (subscriber, #3376) [Link]

You think you are joking, don't you?

http://news.cnet.com/Netscape-sharpens-Javagator-plans/21...

(Date: December 1997)

Gerv

Javagator

Posted Oct 28, 2010 18:58 UTC (Thu) by dag- (subscriber, #30207) [Link]

Thanks for making me smile ;-)

Brendan Eich

Posted Oct 31, 2010 23:19 UTC (Sun) by KaiRo (subscriber, #1987) [Link]

Just that Brendan was AFAIK not naming it this (he called it "Mocha", I think) and was quite unhappy at first with the "JavaScript" name Netscape marketing did put on it - but then I only know all that from hearsay...