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		sukilot on May 12, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Guide for Technical Development Its more that the non techie who wrote it fell for Mozilla's decades-old harebrained marketing gimmick to name JS after Java.

chucksmash on May 12, 2015 [–]

s/Mozilla/Netscape/

sukilot on May 12, 2015 | [–]

Wow I actually thought about that and then my fingers typed Mozilla anyway. Oops.

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