ecma

Ecma Internation

• Website
• Ecma Internation | Wikipedia
• Used to be European Computer Manufacturers Association, an organization that published standards. It’s international since 1994, so Ecma is no longer an acronym and is not capitalized.
• Some specs:
  • ECMA-262 - ECMAScript® language specification
  • ECMA-334 - [[c-sharp|C# Language]] Specification
  • ECMA-404 - The JSON data interchange syntax
  • ECMA-408 - Dart programming language specification

ECMAScript

• Latest draft
• ECMA | Wikipedia
• First published in 1997, based on JavaScript by Netscape and JScript by Microsoft. The naming of “ECMAScript” is a compromise between organizations involved in standardizing the language, especially Netscape and Microsoft.