Marc Andreessen on Ex-Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich's Contributions

A lot more details in this article about the history of Javascript and Brendan Eich's role in it:

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/javascript/2001/04/06/js_his...

This was the press release put out by Netscape at the time:

http://web.archive.org/web/20070916144913/http://wp.netscape...

Press coverage of the 1995 release of Javascript:

http://articles.latimes.com/1995-12-05/business/fi-10557_1_p...

Too bad he's made an unwise decision. Still, he is a best engineer.