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JavaScript: Designing a Language in 10 Days W hen Netscape hired Brendan Eich in April 1995, he was told that he had 10 days to create and produce a working prototype of a programming language that would run in Netscape’s browser. Back then, the pace of Web innovation was furi-ous, with Microsoft suddenly making the Internet the focus of its Win-
Jun 12, 2020 · How a sidekick scripting language for Java, created at Netscape in a ten-day hack, ships first as a de facto Web standard and eventually becomes the world’s most widely used programming language. This paper tells the story of the creation, design, evolution, and standardization of the JavaScript language over the period of 1995-2015.
Aug 26, 2018 · So famously, 34-year-old Brendan Eich created that first version of the language that would become JavaScript in just 10 days. (Last year Eich began a talk at the dotJS conference by saying “22 years ago in May I did 10 days of hard work,” adding “ I didn’t sleep much .”)
Sep 17, 2024 · It’s hard to imagine that one of the most widely used programming languages, JavaScript, was created in just 10 days. Amazingly, this is what Brendan Eich accomplished in the backdrop of...
Feb 1, 2012 · The featured Web extra is a video interview with Mozilla's Chief Technology Officer (and JavaScript's creator), Brendan Eich. Content uploaded by Charles Russell Severance. Author...
You can download JavaScript: The First 20 Years ebook for free in PDF format (5.2 MB). Free download book JavaScript: The First 20 Years, Allen Wirfs-Brock, Brendan Eich. How a sidekick scripting language for Java, created at Netscape in a ten-day hack, ships first a...
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Brendan Eich. Standardization. "Things that are impossible just take longer." - Hixie. What was it like to hack JS in 10 days? Me in 1993, before I created JavaScript in 10 days. 1995, after I was done creating JS in 10 days. Java was the big Web VM. JavaScript was "little brother" Think back to 1995... what was on TV then?