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.
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.
Long list of reasons to dislike Eich and most of them are JavaScript or can execute JavaScript.