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JavaScript is a trademark owned by Oracle

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Re: JavaScript is a trademark owned by Oracle

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Post by ianlevesque »

almost wrote: post #11
ianlevesque wrote: post #7

Nothing to see here, everyone calls it ECMAScript.

But ECMAScript is a mouthful to say and sounds a bit like a skin condition, I don't think that's ever going to become the common name people use for it.

Agreed. You're not the only one who thinks so:

"ECMAScript was always an unwanted trade name that sounds like a skin disease." - Brendan Eich [1]

1. https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/es-discuss/2006-October/0...

Re: JavaScript is a trademark owned by Oracle

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Post by _random_ »

silverwind wrote: post #10
ianlevesque wrote: post #7

Nothing to see here, everyone calls it ECMAScript.

This is far from the truth, unfortunately. We will get there eventually, but everyone has to do their part in removing JS from their vocabulary.

Given the committee's track record, do you think they will manage to change script type= text/javascript by 2050, or it will take a bit longer than that?

Re: JavaScript is a trademark owned by Oracle

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Post by _random_ »

cpach wrote: post #6
cygx wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's right there in the Wikipedia article you linked to: Although it was developed under the name Mocha, the language was officially called LiveScript when it first shipped in beta releases of Netscape Navigator 2.0 in September 1995, but it was renamed JavaScript when it was deployed in the Netscape browser version 2.0B3. The change of name from LiveScript to JavaScript roughly coincided with Netscape adding support…

Gah. It’s such a weird naming choice. I still have peers confusing Java and Javascript...

It's sort of elegant, nicely rounds up the whole collection of weird choices in JavaScript's design.

Re: JavaScript is a trademark owned by Oracle

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Post by chrisdevereux »

cpach wrote: post #6
cygx wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's right there in the Wikipedia article you linked to: Although it was developed under the name Mocha, the language was officially called LiveScript when it first shipped in beta releases of Netscape Navigator 2.0 in September 1995, but it was renamed JavaScript when it was deployed in the Netscape browser version 2.0B3. The change of name from LiveScript to JavaScript roughly coincided with Netscape adding support…

Gah. It’s such a weird naming choice. I still have peers confusing Java and Javascript...

I heard that if you try to run Java in a Javascript VM, it is silently coerced into almost the right JS code.

Re: JavaScript is a trademark owned by Oracle

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Post by k__ »

almost wrote: post #11
ianlevesque wrote: post #7

Nothing to see here, everyone calls it ECMAScript.

But ECMAScript is a mouthful to say and sounds a bit like a skin condition, I don't think that's ever going to become the common name people use for it.

In Germany, we pronounce it as one word.

Ecmascript and not E C M A script. Which makes it as easy to pronounce as JavaScript.

Re: JavaScript is a trademark owned by Oracle

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Post by neoromantique »

TuringTest wrote: post #17
sreenadh wrote: post #16

I ALWAYS had a feeling that something was off about "JavaScript". I hope Oracle does not decide to start suing everyone using JS like node.js...

Well, good luck trying to enforce it... It's now a generic term for ECMAScript.

Strictly speaking, JavaScript is an implementation of ECMAScript, not merely a generic term.
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