On 10/7/19, 'Mike Day' via Chat <[email protected]> wrote: > An early reply before they wake up State-side with the authoritative answer. > > IFIRC, J scripts started out with a sensible “js” suffix. Along came new > boy Java, outgunning J, so forcing the change to”ijs”. Perhaps it stood for > something, but I don’t recall any suggestion of an acronym at the time.
This is basically what I thought had been said about the change. JavaScript (1995, 5 years later than J in 1990) apparently didn't know about or didn't check (or didn't care) that .js already existed. Like J, the "i" probably doesn't stand for anything. And, like J (which Roger Hui said doesn't stand for anything--it was conveniently situated in the middle of the keyboard), the "i" is conveniently located above and to the right of "j" for use by the second finger so that typing "ijs" is virtually as convenient as typing the older "js". Harvey P.S. Single-letter language names had some popularity back when (B, C, J, K, Q, for example), but nowadays, with many search mechanisms requiring at least 3 characters for searching, it can sometimes be a "bear" to search for such languages. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
