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Sort of related: JS is officially written as "JavaScript" (yeah, ikr) and surprisingly the trademark is owned by Oracle.

• cerved 9y ago
  This goes back to the Netscape / SUN partnership. SUN allowed Netscape to use their trademarked name Java when they created JavaScript. Microsoft created JScript. When they decided to standardize the language into a spec, they did so with ECMA. The involved parties couldn't agree on a name so they settled on the highly original name ECMAScript as a compromise. "Eich commented that "ECMAScript was always an unwanted trade name that sounds like a skin disease.""
  • msla 9y ago
    And, just to round this out, SUN is all-caps (rarely) because it was originally an acronym for Stanford University Network.
    • cerved 9y ago
      TIL and can now go to sleep