[robin_reala]

OK, fair enough, but there aren’t any other obvious contenders that fit his criteria. Also, ES4 was in development at the time and would have been a major overhaul to the language (something we’re now getting in ES6).

Maybe I am taking it for granted though…

[gjm11]

I've seen video of a talk in which Yegge says, in so many words, that "NBL is Javascript". Google suggests it was a talk at OSCON 2007, which I can't easily check right now.

[seiji]

Citation from the past: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2344077

[davidroetzel]

Thanks a lot! Exactly what I was looking for.