Brendan Eich started out at Santa Clara University as a physics major, and in his junior year, his interests changed and he went into computer science, earning a bachelor's degree in mathematics and computer science and a master's degree in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1986. After graduating, he joined SGI, where he worked for seven years, focusing on operating systems and networking functions. He then moved to MicroUnity where he worked for three years.
In 1995, Brendan Eich was hired by Netscape to investigate the possibility of using the Scheme
language as a web script.
But just a month later, Brendan Eich was appointed to design a "simplified version of the Java
language," but he wasn't
interested in Java at the time and completed the task given to him by the company in just 10
days—designing Javascript.
Shortly after its release, Javascript was quickly incorporated into Netscape 2.0, and no one
knows
how far-reaching the
impact of these 10 days of graffiti will be on future generations, which will take years to
digest
its many shortcomings
due to its rushed release. It wasn't until 1999, when Javascript was released version 3.0 with
some
modifications, that
it began to be widely used. In 2009, the open source JavaScript-based web project NodeJS was
released, and until then,
the browser had been the sole host of JavaScript. The release of NodeJS freed JavaScript from
the
shackles, and since
then it has not suffered much setbacks and become the only king of front-end scripting.
Computer thinking
reflection