How does this link demonstrate that fact?
Waldemar Horwat worked with Brenden Eich at Netscape and hacked on the JS impl in Netscape 2.0, but the dates are too late.
If its not the original, what is it?
If I understand it correctly, this is the experimental code that was supposed to be used in the research for a "big leap" in Javascript syntax considered by Mozilla around the middle of the previous decade.
The keyword to search for can be Epimetheus, it appears in the sources you linked:
http://www-archive.mozilla.org/js/language/Epimetheus.html
http://discerning.com/burstproject.org/build/doc/constructs....
'Mozilla's implementation ("JavaScript 2.0", or "Epimetheus"): http://www.mozilla.org/js/language/Epimetheus.html http://www.mozilla.org/js/language/js20/ It (of course) has all features of Draft ECMAScript 4, and a few additions. It is not (to our knowledge) shipping in any product.'
Yes, that's how I remember it too.
>>> Eich "wrote JavaScript in ten days" in 1995,[1] having been "recruited to Netscape with the promise of “doing Scheme” in the browser".[2] (The idea of using Scheme itself was abandoned when "engineering management [decided] that the language must ‘look like Java’".[2]) In fall 1996, Eich, needing to "pay off [the] substantial technical debt" left from the first year, "stayed home for two weeks to rewrite Mocha as the codebase that became known as SpiderMonkey".[1]
I love the author's nickname : Captain Abstraction
http://www.webmasterkb.com/Uwe/Forum.aspx/javascript/35764/F...