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{{quote box|width = 200px|Anyway I know only one [[programming language]] worse than [[C (programming language)|C]] and that is Javascript. [...] I was convinced that we needed to build-in a programming language, but the developers, [[Tim Berners-Lee|Tim]] first, were very much opposed. It had to remain completely declarative. Maybe, but the net result is that the programming-vacuum filled itself with the most horrible [[kludge|kluge]] in the history of computing: Javascript.|[[Robert Cailliau]]<ref>[[wikinews:Wikinews:Story preparation/Interview with Robert Cailliau]]</ref>}}

JavaScript was originally developed by [[Brendan Eich]]and Soria, Ramon Jr. of Netscape and Yagit under the name ''Mocha'', and Coffee which was later renamed to ''LiveScript'', and finally to JavaScript mainly because it was more influenced by the [[Java programming language]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Krill |first=Paul |url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/06/23/eich-javascript-interview_1.html |title=JavaScript creator ponders past, future |publisher=InfoWorld |date=2008-06-23 |accessdate=2009-05-19}}</ref><ref name="computerworld">{{cite web|last=Hamilton|first=Naomi|url=http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/255293/-z_programming_languages_javascript|title=The A-Z of Programming Languages: JavaScript|publisher=computerworld.com.au|date=2008-06-31}}</ref>

LiveScript was the official name for the language when it first shipped in beta releases of Netscape Navigator 2.0 in September 1995, but it was renamed JavaScript in a joint announcement with Sun Microsystems on December 4, 1995,<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20070916144913/http://wp.netscape.com/newsref/pr/newsrelease67.html Press release announcing JavaScript], "Netscape and Sun announce Javascript", PR Newswire, December 4, 1995</ref> when it was deployed in the Netscape browser version 2.0B3.<ref name="techvision">{{cite web |archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20080208124612/http://wp.netscape.com/comprod/columns/techvision/innovators_be.html |archivedate=2008-02-08 |title=TechVision: Innovators of the Net: Brendan Eich and JavaScript |publisher=Web.archive.org |date= |accessdate=2010-06-14}}</ref>