On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 2:19 PM, daniela florescu <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ihe, > > I am not sure I understand what you mean… > Well I'm being slightly tongue in cheek wise after the event. > > XQuery was baptized XQuery around 2001, when no JSON was around (yet)…. > > No Java was ...... > True that JSON was created later in the same year 2001, however it did > not become widely popular > about until much later. > > ....but Java was already very very popular. Now supposing an individual had cobbled together a language in 10 days that was so crap that it's leading protagonist actually had to write a book highlighting it's good parts. Read the first paragraph here. https://www.w3.org/community/webed/wiki/A_Short_History_of_JavaScript Imagine if they left the name as LiveScript or ECMAScript and note in the last sentence of paragraph 1 why they didn't.
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