On Thursday, August 27, 2015 at 12:52:34 PM UTC+2, Páll Haraldsson wrote: > > On Wednesday, August 26, 2015 at 5:17:06 PM UTC, Stefan Karpinski wrote: >> >> Is JavaScript actually easy to integrate with Java? >> > > Not really..(?) up to recently. Java was just confused with JavaScript in > the beginning. >
>From Wikipedia: Although it was developed under the name *Mocha*, the language was officially called *LiveScript* when it first shipped in beta releases of Netscape Navigator 2.0 in September 1995, but it was renamed JavaScript[11] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript#cite_note-11> when it was deployed in the Netscape browser version 2.0B3.[12] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript#cite_note-techvision-12> The change of name from LiveScript to JavaScript roughly coincided with Netscape adding support for Java technology in its Netscape Navigator <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape_Navigator> web browser. The final choice of name caused confusion, giving the impression that the language was a spin-off of the Java programming language <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_programming_language>, and the choice has been characterized as a marketing ploy by Netscape to give JavaScript the cachet of what was then the hot new web programming language.[13] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript#cite_note-13>[14] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript#cite_note-14> Rhino was added in 2000 (i.e. JavaScript implemented in the JVM), years later.
