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===Birth at Netscape===
JavaScript was originally developed in Netscape, by [[Brendan Eich]]. Battling with Microsoft over the Internet, Netscape considered their client-server solution as a distributed OS, running a portable version of [[Sun Microsystem]]'s Java. Because Java was a competitor of C++ and aimed at professional programmers, Netscape also wanted a lightweight interpreted language that would complement Java by appealing to nonprofessional programmers, like Microsoft's VB.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Severance |first=Charles |year=2012 |month=February |title=Java Script: Designing a Language in 10 Days |journal=Computer |volume=45 |issue=2 |pages=7-8 |publisher=IEEE Computer Society |url=http://www.computer.org/portal/web/csdl/abs/html/mags/co/2012/02/mco2012020007.htm |accessdate=23 April 2012 }}</ref> (see [[#JavaScript and Java]])
Developed under the name ''Mocha'', ''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>
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