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Quotes of the weekQuotes of the weekPosted Dec 15, 2011 14:45 UTC (Thu) by Seegras (subscriber, #20463)In reply to: Quotes of the week by lkundrak Parent article: Quotes of the week
JavaScript, as explained on http://james-iry.blogspot.com/2009/05/brief-incomplete-an...
"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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Quotes of the week Posted Dec 15, 2011 17:38 UTC (Thu) by alexl (subscriber, #19068) [Link]
Yeah, because clearly that page implies that gnome should keep using C:
1972 - Dennis Ritchie invents a powerful gun that shoots both forward and backward simultaneously. Not satisfied with the number of deaths and permanent maimings from that invention he invents C and Unix.
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