Brendan Eich Explains ECMAScript 3.1 To Developers

VonGuard writes "On April 9, ECMA International produced the final draft for the first major update to JavaScript since 1999. It's called ECMAScript 3.1, but will soon be known as ECMAScript, Fifth Edition. You'll know it as JavaScript, the Next Generation. Mozilla will begin implementing these features after Firefox 3.5, and Microsoft is already showing prototypes behind closed doors. The question, however, is what this will change for JavaScript coders. To get those answers, I tracked down Brendan Eich, Mozilla's CTO and the creator of JavaScript. I transcribed the interview without any editorial since he explains, perfectly, what's changing for programmers. Long story short: Json will be safer, getters and setters will be standard, and strict mode will make things easier to debug."

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I'm going to call it Javascript

[Anonymous Coward]

Even if it continues to cause confusion with "Java", I'm not going to call it ECMAScript because it sounds like a skin disease Eczema script

A few more names please

[wealthychef]

ECMA script, Java The Next Generation, JSon, WTF? Whatever happened to version numbers?

Co3k

[Anonymous Coward]

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bi2natch

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