* Axel Rauschmayer wrote: >I’m in the process of coming up with a good title for a book on >ECMAScript 6. That begs the question: What is the best way to refer to >ECMAScript 6? > >1. The obvious choices: ECMAScript 6 or ES6. >2. Suggested by Allen [1]: JavaScript 2015. > >The advantage of #2 is that many people don’t know what ECMAScript 6 is. >However, I’m worried that a book that has “2015” in its title will >appear old in 2016.
Well, Microsoft Office 1997 came out in 1996, Office 2000 in 1999... So, "JavaScript 2016" would be a better title for marketing purposes. There is also the option leap ahead a bit further with "JavaScript 3000", but Python tried that already. Over in the lands of Perl 5 "Modern Perl" is the catchphrase booktitle, but that seems to be taken for JavaScript. It would also be possible to take a clue from the browser vendors and make it a BoD or e-book offering and increase the version number ever six weeks or so (clearly justified by folding in errata). Another option is to make reference to the past, like "Post-Snowden JavaScript" or better perhaps "JavaScript after Snowden". Might make for a good setup to talk about OO-design, classes, information hiding, and so on... -- Björn Höhrmann · mailto:bjo...@hoehrmann.de · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de D-10243 Berlin · PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 · http://www.bjoernsworld.de Available for hire in Berlin (early 2015) · http://www.websitedev.de/ _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list es-discuss@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
