In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internet

“Bill Gates was bitching about us changing JS all the time,” Eich later recalled of the fall of 1996. Microsoft created its ...
IndustryWeek

Course Focuses On JavaScript, Jscript

Learning to write and debug JavaScript and Jscript is the focus of a training course entitled JavaScript: Building Interactive Web Sites released by Learning Tree International, Reston, Va. The ...

JavaScript turns 30: From 10-day prototype to the backbone of the modern web

Thirty years ago, Netscape and Sun Microsystems introduced JavaScript as a new, cross-platform scripting language for ...
CIO

PHP, JavaScript, Ruby, Perl, Python, and Tcl Today: The State of the Scripting Universe

The former second-class citizens of the programming world have leaped to the fore, changing the face of enterprise software development. With the rise of Web 2.0, scripting languages (also called ...
Macworld

JavaScript getting faster, could displace Flash

JavaScript, the now-ubiquitous scripting language popular in client-side Web development, has gotten faster and could find itself being used instead of Adobe Flash technology, according to Brendan ...
Bleeping Computer

Office 365 security baseline adds macro signing, JScript protection

Microsoft has updated the security baseline for Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise (formerly Office 365 Professional Plus) to include protection from JScript code execution attacks and unsigned macros.
InfoWorld

Scripting languages slip in popularity

Prominent scripting languages, once viewed as the future of programming by offering ease of use, have slipped in the monthly Tiobe index of language popularity. Only Python and JavaScript still have ...