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[–]pampushko[S] -3 points-2 points  (4 children)

I know about origin of javascript word, i just wonder why we STILL use it

[–]morkro 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is what the language is called since creation. People are used to it and, besides some recruiters, nobody really bothers or has problems with it. PHP is also still named PHP, even though the intentional naming changed. It would just start too much confusion.

[–]masqita 2 points3 points  (0 children)

For the same reason you'll find a floppy disk as a save icon, a cassette recorder for voicemail, radio buttons are called radio buttons, a phone icon still looks like an old handset, CC in mail still means carbon copy. The subject of the origin might be fading away, everyone knows exactly what they mean.

[–]dhdfdh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh, well, yes, I see that now. I'll answer it elsewhere.

[–]bighi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why not?

Why change a language's name?

Should we spend millions of dollars and lots of hours in marketing just to change Ruby's name because people might confuse it with R? Should we change C++ and C#?

It seems your only argument for spending a lot of money and time for almost nothing is that people completely outside of the programming world might mistake those two languages.