Quick history
- - Created in 1995
- - A scripting language to add dynamic behavior in the Netscape Navigator.
- - Specification written in 10 days by Brendan Eich (co-founder of the Mozilla project)
- - Initial objective: Quick and dirty prototype oriented scripting language
- - "Unexpected" side effect:
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- - Has been implemented in all web browser.
- - Wide diffusion \(\Rightarrow\) Today the fundamental language for web programming.
- - Became integrant part of the Web, like HTML and CSS.