How did javascript begin?

Answer 1

JavaScript started, because Netscape wanted to add a glue language for web designers to its web browser in 1995. Java made it to their web browser a little earlier and quickly gained popularity, so they changed JavaScript's name from the initial LiveScript to the name it has today.

Answer 2

During the browser wars, Java was supposed to be the front end programming language for all browsers and programmers were really hyped up about it at the type. Unfortunately for Sun, Java didn't quite deliver. In 1995 Netscape, in an attempt to get a leg up on Microsoft, hired Brendan Eich to create their own front end programming language that they hoped would accomplish what Java could not. The result was a language called LiveScript, which Eich created in a week. The language was based off Basic, but made to look like Java (because it was so popular at the time). They started referring to this new language as JavaScript to play off the popularity of Java.

The beginnings of the web are quite fascinating and I highly recommend any web developer to read up on this.

Answer 3

JavaScript was developed at Netscape in the mid 90s. During it's development it had the code name "Mocha." When it was initially released to the public in September 1995, it was called "LiveScript." The name was changed to JavaScript during a minor release of Netscape's software in December 1995. It is generally held that the name change was either a marketing ploy by Netscape to latch onto Java--the hot new web language from Sun (now Oracle.) Some however point out that the change may have been part of a deal between Netscape and Sun in which Netscape bundled the Java run-time into their browsers.

Answer 4

JavaScript was created originally as LiveScript for NetScape by Brendan Eich. The language in influenced by Java (because NetScape said so), smalltalk->self and scheme. LiveScript where then named JavaScript by NetScape to gain popularity by the name. Later it was implemented by Microsoft as JScript, then standardized by The European Computer Manufacturer Association (ECMA) as ECMAScript.

Even though the official standars-name is ECMAScript, the language is still called JavaScript. This could make sense because of the wide variety of implementations in browsers, where none is consistent to the standards. And because ECMAScript is a silly name.

Answer 5

JavaScript was originally developed by Brendan Eich of Netscape under the name Mocha

Answer 6

Because the company that created the java software and stuff liked that name for their own programming language.