Diagram and History of Programming Languages (2006)

Re:Diagram and History of Programming Languages (2006) by macintux on Monday March 18, 2019 @04:22PM (#19424829)

IIRC, the syntax for JS was redesigned hurriedly to look like Java because at the time Java was hyped as the one true language for everything web, including front-end apps (applets). Definitely the name was chosen for that reason.

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Re:Diagram and History of Programming Languages (2006) by BrendanEich on Monday March 25, 2019 @06:53PM (#19487520)

I didn't redesign JS syntax at all, it was always C family syntax with Java keywords reserved and a few non-C keywords even used. I never had an s-expr language at first and redid the syntax. Anyone who says so is misinformed.

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Re:Diagram and History of Programming Languages (2006) by chvid on Monday March 18, 2019 @04:33PM (#19424970)

If you add static types to js and create typescript you all of a sudden have something that looks a lot like c# and java ... don’t you think?

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Re:Diagram and History of Programming Languages (2006) by ylesaout on Monday March 18, 2019 @06:15PM (#19425907)

And if you add Lambdas to Java you all of a sudden have something that looks a lot like JavaScript... Don't you think?

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Re:Diagram and History of Programming Languages (2006) by chvid on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @09:50AM (#19430748)

To me the big different between js and java is the static type system - ignore that the connection between the two is obvious.

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