A Brief History of JavaScript

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It’s good to be back. I let the old blog field lie fallow in order to focus on work in Ecma TC39 (JS standards), Firefox 3.5, 3.6 and 4; and recently on a new project that I’ll blog about soon.

In the mean time, here’s the video from my JSConf 2010 surprise keynote in April. Highlights include:

  • What would happen in a battle between Chuck Norris and Bruce Campbell
  • Clips from Netsca^H^H^H^H^H^HEvil Dead 2 and Army of Darkness
  • Discussion of where JS has been and what lies in its immediate future

True facts:

  • I did meet John McCarthy of LISP fame in 1977
  • My haircut was influenced by Morrissey’s (hey, it was the late ’80s)
  • JS’s function keyword did come from AWK

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Brendan Eich co-founded mozilla.org and is currently the CTO and SVP Engineering of Mozilla. He is widely known for his contributions to the evolution of the Web, including inventing JavaScript and spearheading its ongoing standardization and evolution.