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Harsh or inciteful?

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Anyone who claims that there's been no significant improvement
since 1995 loses all credibility.

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Try 'clueless':

"Javascript came into being to enable client side form validation"

Judged on that criterion alone, JavaScript has achieved its goal - but
the statement is complete rubbish.

Netscape, who developed JavaScript (originally called 'LiveScript'),
said in 1995:

"JavaScript is a compact, object-based scripting language for developing
client and server Internet applications."

<URL:http://wp.netscape.com/eng/mozilla/3.0/handbook/javascript/>

Which is a slightly loftier goal than simple form validation. LiveWire,
the server-side component, just kinda died with Netscape P/L.

If you want some real history from Brendan Eich (who lead development of
LiveWire/JavaScript) try the following written in 1998:

"Netscape was about a year old then and was looking for someone to work
on a scripting language or some kind of language inside the browser that
could be used to automate parts of a web page or make a web page more
dynamic."

<URL:http://wp.netscape.com/comprod/columns/techvision/innovators_be.html>


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