6
Do you know who is Brendan Eich?
Brendan Eich is the Javascript language inventor, that’s certainly something good to have on your curriculum!
Brendan invented javascript when he was at Netscape. But how old do you think he is? He isn’t even fifty. The guy works at Mozilla as Chief Technology Officer (I like that title) and is actually 48. I really wonder how it is to go to Mozilla on your first workday and present yourself to your new team:
- So… on what did you work prior to Mozilla?
- Well you know, I invented javascript, the language half your team workings with or on, no big deal.
Anyway, just wanted to share my amazement of the day, Brendan explains a bit more on how JavaScript is born in his blog here:
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/roadmap/archives/2008/04/popularity.html#more.
Author: Cedric Dugas
Cedric Dugas is an experienced front-end developer and founder of Position: Absolute, based in Montreal, Canada. When he is not doing CSS and jquery (does it ever happen?), he likes to read on web usability and play trumpet. Why don't you follow him on twitter.
1 Comment to “Do you know who is Brendan Eich?”
Leave a comment
Articles
Some Tweets
- kind of old, bit I like it http://www.thereisnopagefold.com/
- I really have a love/hate relationship with the E texteditor, so good but so bad at the same time
- onclick on a form instead of submit? Please never do javascript again
- Question: do you think the mobile web has a viable market right more? Pretty hard to convince clients to invest
- I meant jquery mobile.. meh
- Looks like sencha touch will have competition, jquery touch is looking hot!
LOL, yeah that would be funny to have somebody ask you what you know about a technology and to reply that you invented it.