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		BrendanEich on Feb 10, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: John Walker, founder of Autodesk, has died Not "from VCs". Marc was not a VC then, Netscape's investors didn't direct any of our strategic or tactical moves. Bill Joy at Sun also supported JS as scripting language for Java, and signed the trademark license. Excerpt on the early days and why we did JS (part of 3 hour Lex Fridman interview): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0ZWtsYyX8E HOPL paper: https://hopl4.sigplan.org/details/hopl-4-papers/10/JavaScrip...

jabowery on Feb 11, 2024 [–]

I stand corrected (and also note the "weekend" was really 10 days). Jim Clark* apparently gave Marc Andreessen the necessary latitude.

* The other person with an office opening into Keith's work area at Memex was Ron Resch https://www.historyofcg.com/pages/university-of-utah/

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