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> 1995 - Brendan Eich reads up on every mistake ever made in designing a programming language, invents a few more, and creates LiveScript. Later, in an effort to cash in on the popularity of Java the language is renamed JavaScript. Later still, in an effort to cash in on the popularity of skin diseases the language is renamed ECMAScript.

From the brilliant "A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages": http://james-iry.blogspot.co.il/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and... .

TLS has the same problem. Everybody knows SSL and everybody wants to keep saying SSL.

We should just call it JS. That way the filename extension still makes sense.

We should just shorten that to eichscript.

I can't see what's wrong with ECMAScript. ['ek.ma] script. Javascript is just as long.

ECMAScript sounds like a disease and it's unpleasant to pronounce.

ek ma script? It isn't too hard to say.