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by orev 648 days ago
When JavaScript was introduced, Java was already gaining traction, and the name JavaScript was chosen to ride on the coattails of that popularity. From that perspective, there’s a pretty good argument in favor of whoever holds the Java trademark, which happens to be Oracle.

I have definitely run into people who say things like “they wrote a Java script”, which actually turned out to be a Java program.