what i learned most from this quiz is that whoever invented javascript mashed their face in with a hammer and then just wrote the first thing they thought of on paper and said “my work is done”.
As I recall, that is remarkably close to the true story. They wanted something that could make web pages dynamic, wouldn’t crash the browser or any pages that used it and they wanted it in the Netscape browser ASAP.
One man thus threw something together that looked a little bit Java-like and it ended up in the browser fairly shortly thereafter.
what i learned most from this quiz is that whoever invented javascript mashed their face in with a hammer and then just wrote the first thing they thought of on paper and said “my work is done”.
As I recall, that is remarkably close to the true story. They wanted something that could make web pages dynamic, wouldn’t crash the browser or any pages that used it and they wanted it in the Netscape browser ASAP.
One man thus threw something together that looked a little bit Java-like and it ended up in the browser fairly shortly thereafter.
Hard to believe that was 30 years ago.