A Brief History of JavaScript
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JavaScript (which began as Netscape's Mocha) was created in 1995 by Brendan Eich to allow HTML developers to write scripts in their webpages. Read this article to learn about features and functionality that supported the early development of the language. These included a Java-like syntax, basic data types, and objects with classes.
On JavaScript, from its inventor
JS had to "look like Java" only less so, be Java's dumb kid brother or boy-hostage sidekick. Plus, I had to be done in ten days or something worse than JS would have happened.
- Brendan Eich on Javascript