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Help us raise $200k to free JavaScript from Oracle

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Re: Help us raise $200k to free JavaScript from Oracle

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Post by siva7 »

billpg wrote: post #10

I kinda want Oracle to go further and insist that no-one can call it "JavaScript" any more. Let's all it "JS" and completely break from Java. "What does JS stand for?" "It stands for itself."

What's the point? Move on to Typescript and just call it TS. I never got the hang out of why people tend to add "-script" to the the name of a programming language like it's 1995.

Re: Help us raise $200k to free JavaScript from Oracle

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Post by Keyframe »

billpg wrote: post #10

I kinda want Oracle to go further and insist that no-one can call it "JavaScript" any more. Let's all it "JS" and completely break from Java. "What does JS stand for?" "It stands for itself."

Let's all it "JS" and completely break from Java

or, you know, its alter ego ECMAScript? ES for short.

Re: Help us raise $200k to free JavaScript from Oracle

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Post by jon-wood »

It's certainly a bold move for a private company that wants to take a behemoth like Oracle to court over something that mostly benefits themselves to solicit $200K of donations from random people in order to so. I look forward to seeing how that plays out for them.

Re: Help us raise $200k to free JavaScript from Oracle

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Post by rs186 »

siva7 wrote: post #13

I can't be the only one who believes the name JavaScript should die in Peace. It was and still is the worst naming of any popular programming language in existence.

Anecdotally I don't know anyone who cares in the slightest bit about that. It's a name that has been used for a long time, and there have been lots of weird, strange name out there for software, but people just use it and move on.
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