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Re:Was Javascript really made in 10 days? by gapchuboy on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @02:47PM (#38846145)
What was Bill gates bitching about JS? Did he plan to push VB script instead?
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Re:Was Javascript really made in 10 days? by goto11 on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @02:51PM (#38846218)
Netscape had market dominance at the time so Internet Explorer had to keep bug-for-bug compatibility with Netscape to keep up. Given the amount of bugs and the lack of documentation of JS, this must have been quite frustrating for MS who was used to calling the shots.
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Re:Was Javascript really made in 10 days? by peeters on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @02:49PM (#38846177)
> Bill Gates was bitching about us changing JS all the time

Emphasis mine

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Re:Was Javascript really made in 10 days? by masswerk on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @06:07PM (#38848342)
MS had licensed JavaScript – and, of course, their implementation was incompatible (at least in certain parts).
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