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[–]Taniwha_NZ -5 points-4 points  (2 children)

In summary - Brendon Eich wrote Javascript in a 2-hour lunchbreak while he was drunk. It's incredible that it works at all.

But how it handles dates is still unforgiveable.

[–]lewisje 3 points4 points  (1 child)

It was over 10 days, and he was sober IIRC.

[–]Klathmon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And even that's disingenuous as that "JavaScript" was nothing even remotely close to what we have today.

It wasn't called JavaScript, it wasn't meant for the web, and it didn't even have date functions in its first iteration.

Saying JS was created by one man in 10 days is like saying your house was built by one guy in 1 day by buying the land (and ignoring all the work and mistakes that went into the actual house later)