Brendan Eich
Brendan Eich (born 1961) is a computer programmer and creator of the JavaScript programming language. He is the Chief Technology Officer at the Mozilla Corporation.
In early 1995 Netscape hired Brendan Eich away from MicroUnity Systems Engineering, to take charge of the design and implementation of a new language.
Tasked with making Navigator’s newly added Javasupport more accessible to non-Java programmers, Eich eventually decided that a loosely-typed scripting language suited the environment and audience without a bytecode compiler or knowledge of object-oriented software design.
The language he created was christened “LiveScript” to reflect its dynamic nature, but was soon renamed JavaScript.
On 4 December, 1995 Netscape and Sun jointly announced the new language, calling it a “complement” to both HTML and Java.
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