History
Eich "wrote JavaScript in ten days" in 1995, having been "recruited to Netscape with the promise of 'doing Scheme' in the browser". (The idea of using Scheme was abandoned when "engineering management that the language must ‘look like Java’".) In fall 1996, Eich, needing to "pay off substantial technical debt" left from the first year, "stayed home for two weeks to rewrite Mocha as the codebase that became known as SpiderMonkey". The name SpiderMonkey was chosen as a reference to the movie Beavis and Butt-head Do America, in which the character Tom Anderson mentions that the title characters were "whacking off like a couple of spider monkeys." In 2011, Eich transferred management, termed ownership, of the SpiderMonkey code to Dave Mandelin.
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