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ECMAScript 4.0 Is Dead

Posted by Soulskill on 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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  1. Re:I'll wait for... by odiroot · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Every day. Every post. Same old memes.

  2. I, for one... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...welcome our unfunny slasher overlords.

  3. Re:I'll wait for... by Firehed · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    In Soviet Russia, Slashdot stops trying it's jokes on YOU!

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    How are sites slashdotted when nobody reads TFAs?
  4. Is it coincidence? by dvh.tosomja · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Just few seconds ago, I ported simple C demo using libmozjs.so into freepascal, and now you telling me JS is dead? And yes, all following "Latin and pascal is dead languages" jokes will be moded as troll.

  5. Re:I'll wait for... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    parent is currently with 0, Insightful... mod_groupthink is behaving really strange these days...