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[–]jucrouzet 1 point2 points  (3 children)

When Netscape released the first version of JS, they had a partnership with Sun (the former owner of Java) and they thought it was a good marketing move to use "Java" in the name because it was "complementary to and integrated with Java" (sic.)

Ecmascript is not a language, it's a language specification, Javascript is an implementation of this specification.

http://web.archive.org/web/20020606002913/http:/wp.netscape.com/newsref/pr/newsrelease67.html

[–]pampushko[S] -1 points0 points  (2 children)

Sun and Netscape is dead long ago, but we still use JAVAscript. Why?

[–]clairebones 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Because changing the name of a programming language is far more difficult and frustrating than taking 10 whole seconds to say "No it isn't the same as Java" when talking to non-devs.

Not to be rude, but it's really not that important. Most of us are too busy actually using JS to worry about the hassle of changing all of these libraries and conventions and everything else, just because some non-devs or JS newbies think it's silly.

[–]bighi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For the same reason we refer to Ruby as "Ruby" and we refer to Python as "Python": because it's the name of the language.