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Just call it JS already. Forget about the "Java" bit, as JS really doesn't have much to do with Java anymore. Forget about ECMA as well -- that's a mouthful -- though I strongly suspect that the people who design JS believe verbosity is a virtue in all of their naming schemes. Just call it JS and invite the community to come up with whatever silly backronym they see fit. Just super? Jihad script? Jelly sandwich? Juni…
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Can’t you just call it ECMAScript We're at about the right point in the timeline to start calling it YavaScript which both solves the trademark problem and keeps us on the path laid out in prophesy.
For the uninitiated: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
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Well... Oracle is lead by the most ruthless, unethical, Machiavellian business person in tech and his devoted acolytes. They probably don't gaf. But it wouldn't surprise me for Oracle to decide on some last minute resurrection of the brand and start legal armageddon. (In fact, calling attention to the situation is probably the worst thing to do...) That said, my guess is all they really want is for it to be a zero co…
a) Calling a person evil should be reserved for those that commit truly heinous acts. Not simply being a tough, shrewd businessman in an industry where you need to be. b) Oracle's CEO is Safra Katz and has been for a while now. And pretty sure she has a lot more on her plate to worry about i.e. existential threat of AWS/Azure/GCP than fighting some meaningless lawsuit.
Also there are those rumors, that they have 10 managers per developer, and 50 lawyers per manager.
Who knows, maybe Oracle enjoys suing people?
This is a non-problem for the world. I never heard of this being enforced in any way.
JavaScript is trademarked and not related to Java. ECMA should adopt the name “JS”. Just JS, not an acronym. That’s what people call it anyway.
How do you pronounce JS out loud, and why is your way right and the other way wrong?
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Can’t you just call it ECMAScript We're at about the right point in the timeline to start calling it YavaScript which both solves the trademark problem and keeps us on the path laid out in prophesy.
Or JawaScript
...wait, no.
Just call it JS already. Forget about the "Java" bit, as JS really doesn't have much to do with Java anymore. Forget about ECMA as well -- that's a mouthful -- though I strongly suspect that the people who design JS believe verbosity is a virtue in all of their naming schemes. Just call it JS and invite the community to come up with whatever silly backronym they see fit. Just super? Jihad script? Jelly sandwich? Juni…
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a) I don't think you get to define words for us all
I must have missed the part where I was hired to define words for humanity. I was just offering my opinion that there are people on this planet who have caused unspeakable misery not just genocide but industrialised misery. And that throwing around the term evil to apply to a tough and unquestionably unethical businessman devalues it.
LiveScript would have been better.
https://livescript.net/ (But seems inactive judging by GitHub).
Actually a mostly quite nice little toy language. (Only the OOP part seems messed up a little bit; but besides that it looks quite clean).
Call it WebScript or DOMScript or HTMLScript or MozillaScript or something. ECMAScript is absolutely the worse name for it.