And about Netscape making JavaScript. I wonder if one of the guys working on the project suggested the idea for the name and the logo(the coffee) due to the guy drinking alot of coffee, of course thats just a suggestion on how they may have gotten the name
The coffee cup logo is for
java not javascript, they are completely different languages altogether. Like I say, netscape was simply trying to capitalize on it's popularity back in 95-ish, by renaming they in-development "LiveScript" to JavaScript. Of course they also ended up confusing the heck out of everybody because the names are so similar. Sun Microsystems, on the other hand, originally had a language they devised code named "oak". It was originally intended for such purposes as programming appliances, like toasters, refridgerators, and
coffee makers. I'm not sure if that had anything to do with the name, but that's always been the way I've thought of it. Of course it ended up that Java wasn't to be used for appliances but rather publishing useless crap on the web. (a Niche a think was filled long ago, by HTML, or rather the birth of HTML as used on the web).
but im now glad that im taking Microsoft VB 6 for one of my classes in High School. 
I got lucky at my high school, because the year after I graduated, they started using VB .NET instead. blech. I only know this because I visited my old Computer Science teacher, and the "replacements" for me (the programming nerd that seems to know everything) were disgustingly unknowledgable about anything other then VB .NET or C# (again, blech). Not to mention they actually looked down on me because I didn't care for .NET. Sadly none of their Prime number generators could touch the speed of the
Visual Basic 2 version I had written in grade 9, and this was supposed to be advanced Placement Grade 12 Computer Science. Sadly they tried to blame the very same thing they thought was so great, .NET framework. As far as I know nobody in that class has ever managed to write a prime number generator (lists prime numbers until closed or paused) that's gone faster then the one I wrote, which is sad because I was bored one day and a VB6-tuned version goes even faster.
Warranted, it was likely that the students simply didn't know the Eratosthenes sieve algorithm, which wouldn't surprise me because they didn't even know what a stack was, much less how to write one. Instead they simply directed me to some Framework class. In fact, that whole incident proved to me that people can't really learn a whole lot about programming from .NET, simply
because of the framework. Half the fun of programming is writing reusable classes and not having to revisit the issue unless your working on the class itself, thus letting you think about more important programming issues.
sorry. Fortran was created so far back that i thought it was long gone. but i guess i was wrong. Thanks Dias for sharing the info about Fortran though.
BASIC isn't exactly a language newcomer either. neither is C or Pascal, for that matter. (FORTRAN is older then both though). Come to think of it, the oldest programming language is still widely used (if only by compilers and assemblers), machine language. And I think ASM was second, then the branching out began.
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