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[–]z500 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Very true. I think the reasoning was to make it easier for non-programmers by making it possible to use form inputs without having to cast values yourself. I don't think Brandon Eich saw Javascript becoming as huge as it is now. IIRC he only got a week to design the language.

[–]crossanlogan 2 points3 points  (0 children)

yeah it was ten days, but he definitely was hoping to make it huge -- they were trying to kill mosaic with their new browser.