> > 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.
I was pretty sure I'd read it in an interview, so started typing "Brendan Eich" into Google and got "Brendan Eich Ten Days" as an autocomplete... anyway, he confirms it himself: "I had to be done in ten days or something worse than JS would have happened" quote and link onward: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Eich Cheers, Dave > 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. > > -- 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.
