Apologies for formatting problems -- I blame the Google Inbox web app. One typo fix, hope it's obvious already:
On Sat, Jan 2, 2016 at 2:28 PM Brendan Eich <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks, Claude. > > It may be tempting to assume the standard specified something dumb, or due > to "legacy" mysteries. Not so. HTML5 fully specifies <script>, which I > created in 1995 at Netscape. I had no time for the src= attribute, and even > if I had (I implemented that in 1996 for Netscape 3), but basis > "the basis" > case was code directly in the HTML page, as I noted on twitter: > https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/683344089308200960. > >> <https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss> > > This reminds me to add something in re: Herby's reply on that "javaing" thread (https://esdiscuss.org/topic/small-request-javascript-for-javaing) which has finally died a deserved death: JS should remain short for JavaScript, the common name whose (possibly untenable) trademark Oracle may yet donate to Ecma. This is because you cannot take Java out of the origin story and explain things like primitives and their auto-boxing wrapper objects. I laid it all out on twitter just yesterday: https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/683009424940662784 Trademark leverage by marketing implied technical roadmap contents including LiveConnect, the JS/Java bridge, which required primitives and objects (value and reference types). JS is not derived from Java (both have C as a grandfather), but it had some lateral gene transfer. Hmm, kind of like a trademark-leveraged superhero origin with gamma-irradiated blood transfusion among cousins. You might say that JS is She-Hulk to Java's Hulk ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/She-Hulk#Publication_history). Or not! ;-) /be
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