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Oracle, it’s time to free JavaScript (javascript.tm)
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[–] wkk@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

[...] it was decided that the language would be called “ECMAScript” instead. (Microsoft happily offered up “JScript”, but no-one else wanted that.) Brendan Eich, the creator of JavaScript and a co-signatory of this letter, wrote in 2006 that “ECMAScript was always an unwanted trade name that sounds like a skin disease.”

I tend to agree with these sentiments

[–] Kissaki@programming.dev 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

sounds like a skin disease.”

I mean… it does occasionally make my skin crawl