On 16/10/2012, at 2:39 PM, Andrew Grimm <[email protected]> wrote: > That'd be the same amount of time Torvalds took to create git.
And doesn't it show! (in both cases…). Just a little more care and the world would have been much better off. Actually I have friends who were at Mozilla at the time, so I could get them to confirm the story. Two weeks is pretty consistent with the heroic efforts of the time however. I think the first JS was bootstrapped from a Scheme engine. Clifford Heath. > Andrew > > On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 1:45 PM, Robert Gravina > <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 13 October 2012 18:37, Ben Schwarz <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Brendan Eich, CTO of Mozilla, Inventor of Javascript >> >> Wowzers! Despite all the flack Javascript gets for its little >> idiosyncrasies, legend has it that Brendan only had two weeks to >> design, build and ship the first version of the language and >> interpreter in Netscape. >> >> Much respect! Be nice if someone going there could confirm the legend :) >> >> Robert >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en.
