在90年代，我们痴迷于用咖啡来命名东西。

我知道…我们在想什么?!

该项目最初被称为Mocha，然后更名为LiveScript，最后在Netscape和Sun达成许可协议时更名为JavaScript。当时的想法是让它成为一种补充Java的脚本语言。

我的来源。

节选自对其创作者Brendan Eich的采访:

InfoWorld: As I understand it, JavaScript started out as Mocha, then became LiveScript and then became JavaScript when Netscape and Sun got together. But it actually has nothing to do with Java or not much to do with it, correct? Eich: That’s right. It was all within six months from May till December (1995) that it was Mocha and then LiveScript. And then in early December, Netscape and Sun did a license agreement and it became JavaScript. And the idea was to make it a complementary scripting language to go with Java, with the compiled language.

在90年代，我们痴迷于用咖啡来命名东西。

我知道…我们在想什么?!

Java之于Javascript，就像汽车之于地毯。

这种语言的名字是Netscape和Sun共同营销交易的结果，作为交换，Netscape将Sun的Java运行时与他们当时占主导地位的浏览器捆绑在一起。 ——http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript历史

当Javascript或Livescript推出市场时，太阳微系统公司正忙于java的创建，所以他们将其命名为Javascript。 同时还使用了java的一些基本构造。