ECMAScript 4.0 Is Dead

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday August 16, 2008 @05:23AM from the long-live-ecmascript dept.

TopSpin writes "Brendan Eich, creator of the JavaScript programming language, has announced that ECMA Technical Committee 39 has abandoned the proposed ECMAScript 4.0 language specification in favor of a more limited specification dubbed 'Harmony,' or ECMAScript 3.1. A split has existed among the members of this committee, including Adobe and Microsoft, regarding the future of what most of us know as JavaScript. Adobe had been promulgating their ActionScript 3 language as the next ECMAScript 4.0 proposal. As some point out, the split that has prevented this may be the result of Microsoft's interests. What does the future hold for Mozilla's Tamarin Project, based on Adobe's open source ActionScript virtual machine?"

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I'll wait for... by jfclavette · 2008-08-16 05:25 · Score: 5, Funny

ECMA Script 3.11 for workgroups.
The joke works this time !
1. Re:I'll wait for... by mangu · 2008-08-16 06:05 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  ECMA Script 3.11 for workgroups.
  The joke works this time !
  Dude, that joke is so 1993!
  The current version is going from 4.0 to 3.5.9
2. Re:I'll wait for... by pragma_x · 2008-08-17 14:00 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Slashdot: News for Trolls. Memes that Matter.
I'm skeptical by joe+155 · 2008-08-16 05:38 · Score: 2, Funny

Brendan Eich may claim it to be dead, but I'd really rather wait for Netcraft to confirm it before actually basing any decisions on this news...

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