[BrendanEich]

I joined Netscape on April 3, 1995 but in the server team, due to a temporary requisition shortage. I worked on what would eventually become HTTP 1.1, which we wanted to be more like SPDY or HTTP 2. Therefore I had only spare time to think about what became JS, and I used it to study HyperTalk, Logo, and other languages, not just Scheme or Self.

I finally got transferred to the client team one whole month later, in early May. Then I had ten days to demo-day.

Why do you feel compelled to make up a story? Because it sounds nicer to you to denigrate my work, it seems.

[tomc1985]

> Why do you feel compelled to make up a story? Because it sounds nicer to you to denigrate my work, it seems.

Because randos on the internet (especially business types) love to make stuff up in the name of puffery and deifying. Legends are rarely true.

Thank you for clarifying.

[BrendanEich]

You are a business type?

[tomc1985]

Yes, sadly. I'm well aware of our capacity for bullshit and cargo-culting

[bananicorn]

Not that you need it or anything, but I'd like to thank you for your work on Javascript - without it I might never have gotten started with programming.

So, thank you very much for laying down the foundation for a whole generation of new programmers!