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Which programming language, created by Brendan Eich at Netscape in 1995, was briefly renamed from 'LiveScript' to capitalize on another language's popularity?
Answer
JavaScript
Brendan Eich created what became JavaScript in roughly ten days in May 1995; the name was changed from LiveScript to JavaScript as a marketing tie-in with Sun's Java.
💡 Did you know?
Despite the name, JavaScript has almost nothing in common with Java; the naming has caused confusion for developers for three decades.
Other options people guess
- Java
- TypeScript
- CoffeeScript
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- web
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