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Who invented JS IIFEs?

What is the name of the person who invented the JavaScript IIFEs? Thanks!

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Matt Ellen-Tsivintzeli

Hasn't it been there from the beginning?

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gfxmoda

No. It turned out that a geek called "Ben Alman" invented them in 2010. Thanks for the interest. Here's the link:
benalman.com/news/2010/11/immediat...

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Matt Ellen-Tsivintzeli

He invented the name, but they were already being used, the article says as much, people were just calling them “self-executing anonymous functions”. I'm pretty sure the ability to make them has been there from the beginning, but perhaps someone was first to discover the method.