As a computer programmer Brendan Eich was working for Netscape communication and initially this programming language was called Mocha and later renamed LiveScript and finally JavaScript.
The Java story starts a few years earlier when " The Green Team " is assembled. Their task is called "the Green Project". They were contracted by Sun to locate the future trend or computer technology wave.
The Green Project members counted 13 and this was 1991. Their research showed that the next computer generation would see a merger of computer and digitally controlled consumer devices.
The teams task was not about developing a new computer language but the study did lead to the development of a new software programming tool. StarSeven with it's mascot Duke, the Green Team technology character was used to introduce the new software language.
*7 or StarSeven had been programmed in a language called "Oak" which was invented by a member of the Green Team called James Gosling. Initially the products written in this new computer language were not meant for the internet. The team was trying to hit the cable TV market but found no real success.
They shifted their focus to the internet which was just beginning to take off.
By 1995 Gosling and John Gage of Sun enter into communications that would lead to the introduction of the Java source code on the Internet in March of 1995. Within a few months people all over the world are downloading this new internet technology.
According to knowledgerush.com there is no real relationship between Java and javascript. " JavaScript is an object oriented scripting language originally developed by Netscape Communication......and it is given a syntax closer to that of Sun Microsystems' Java language....Microsoft calls their version JScript."
Both languages are well accepted on the WWW.
One major use of client side 1995 Javascript introduced on netscape browser and later adapted to many the other browsers is the coding and embedding of little functions called widgets into HTML pages. The pitfall with these types of javascript widgets is that they tend to display differently in each browser therefore it is sometimes necessary to write a different javascript code for each browser.
Resources
Java Technology - The Early years by Jon Byous
knowledgerush - LiveScript
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