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by visitor4rmindia 6245 days ago
Oh my God! That was the best belly laugh I've had in a long time. Very fun read.

>1995 - Brendan Eich reads up on every mistake ever made in designing a programming language, invents a few more, and creates LiveScript. Later, in an effort to cash in on the popularity of Java the language is renamed JavaScript. Later stil, in an effort to cash in on the popularity of skin diseases the language is renamed ECMAScript.

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The footnote's better!