ECMAScript (or ES) is a trademarked scripting-language specification standardized by Ecma International in ECMA-262 and ISO/IEC 16262. It was created to standardize JavaScript, so as to foster multiple independent implementations. ECMAScript has remained the best-known implementation of JavaScript since the standard was first published, with other well-known implementations including JScript and ActionScript. Coders commonly use ECMAScript for client-side scripting on the World Wide Web, and it is increasingly being used for writing server applications and services using Node.js. 

The ECMAScript specification is a standardized specification of a scripting language developed by Brendan Eich of Netscape; initially it was named Mocha, later LiveScript, and finally JavaScript. In December 1995, Sun Microsystems and Netscape announced JavaScript in a press release. In March 1996, Netscape Navigator 2.0 was released, featuring support for JavaScript. 

Owing to the widespread success of JavaScript as a client-side scripting language for Web pages, Microsoft developed a compatible dialect of the language, naming it JScript to avoid trademark issues. JScript added new date methods to alleviate the Year 2000 problem caused by the JavaScript methods that were based on the Java "Date" class. JScript was included in Internet Explorer 3.0, released in August 1996. 

Netscape delivered JavaScript to Ecma International for standardization and the work on the specification, ECMA-262, began in November 1996. The first edition of ECMA-262 was adopted by the Ecma General Assembly in June 1997. Several editions of the language standard have been published since then. The name "ECMAScript" was a compromise between the organizations involved in standardizing the language, especially Netscape and Microsoft, whose disputes dominated the early standards sessions. Eich commented that "ECMAScript was always an unwanted trade name that sounds like a skin disease." QUESTIONS:

Q1:
1. What sort of thing is ECMAScript?
2. How can ECMAScript be described?
3. Define what ECMAScript is.
Q2:
1. Who created ECMAScript?
2. Who was the creator of ECMAScript?
3. Who came up with ECMAScript?
Q3:
1. What company was Brendan Eich from?
2. What company employed Brendan Eich?
3. Who was Brendan Eich's employer?
Q4:
1. What was ECMAScript originally called?
2. What was the original name for ECMAScript?
3. What was ECMAScript called at first?
Q5:
1. When did ECMAScript become known as JavaScript?
2. When did people start referring to ECMAScript as JavaScript?
3. When did JavaScript become the name for ECMAScript?
Q6:
1. What browser supported ECMAScript?
2. Which browser could one run ECMAScript on?
3. Which browser allowed people to use ECMAScript?
Q7:
1. What browser supported ECMAScript in addition to Internet Explorer?
2. Which browser could one run ECMAScript on other than internet explorer?
3. Which browser allowed people to use ECMAScript besides internet explorer?
Q8:
1. What issue arose with JavaScript?
2. What was the problem with JavaScript?
3. What difficulty did JavaScript impose?
Q9:
1. Who tried fixing the problem with JavaScript?
2. Who attempted to fix JavaScript's issue?
3. Who tried to fix JavaScript's trademark problem?
Q10:
1. What did Microsoft call their JavaScript effort?
2. What did Microsoft name their attempt to fix JavaScript?
3. What was Microsoft's name for their JavaScript attempt?
Q11:
1. Why did Microsoft use the name JScript?
2. Where did Microsoft's name JScript come from?
3. What was Microsoft's reason for making the name JScript?
Q12:
1. What was the purpose of creating ECMAScript?
2. What function did ECMAScript serve?
3. What was the reason for inventing ECMAScript?
