While I have little love for either JavaScript or Oracle, I find it odd that Oracle somehow wound up with the JavaScript trademark. I am, however, completely unsurprised that they haven’t given it up, despite doing nominally nothing with it. I guess ECMAScript is probably the preferred name, despite it sounding like a boring design-by-committee language.

Nothing about JavaScript (or Yavascript) should surprise me, though. Given the short window in which it was developed. The fact that it was supposed to be Scheme and the fact that it was renamed (internally) from Mocha, to LiveScript to finally JavaScript because Sun (at the time) was riding high on the popularity of Java and it seemed like a good idea to crib off of them.

Yeah, makes me want to write more (yuck) ECMAScript.