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Which programming language was originally named "Mocha"? (self.trivia)

submitted 1 year ago by Ategon to c/trivia

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And the third trivia question of the day. Will be doing 3 questions every day, 1 about guessing the language, 1 about concepts, and 1 about history

The 4 options will be given in the comments and answer + results will be posted in ~ 12 hours

Feel free to also do your own trivia questions in the community if youve got any

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[–] Ategon 8 points 1 year ago

Option 4

JavaScript

[–] Ategon 5 points 1 year ago

Option 2

CoffeeScript

[–] Ategon 2 points 1 year ago

Option 1

Java

[–] Ategon 1 points 1 year ago

Option 3

Ruby

[–] Ategon 1 points 1 year ago

Answer

The answer is JavaScript! Mocha was the original name, then livescript, and then javascript

The answer was guessed by a bit more than half of everyone who responded - 6/11