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Re: questions re Javascript

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In article <to-do-20150904163124@ram.dialup.fu-berlin.de>, Stefan Ram
<ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:

>=?UTF-8?Q?Joshua_Cranmer_=f0=9f=90=a7?= <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> writes:
>>other. It's like saying English and French are similar, because they 
>>share the same grammatical constructs and many words are cognates. 
>
>  What I objected to was the typical wording
>
>      »JavaScript /has nothing to do/ with Java.«.
>
>  To me, it would be disputable too when one would say, 
>
>      »English has nothing to do with French.«.
>
>  Also, it depends on the point of view. Compared with a
>  language like »Archi«, which has 1.5 million forms of verb
>  endings and more than 150 phonemes, English and French
>  suddenly appear to be more similar.

Given that the OP didn't seem to know very much, at this point in his
learning process it is *much* *better* to say that these languages are
not related. Then he can get on. He can learn a more nuanced lesson
later on. All you and similar posters are likely to do at this stage,
with your pedantry, is to confuse him.

-- 
"Once you adopt the unix paradigm, the variants cease to be a problem - you
bitch, of course, but that's because bitching is fun, unlike M$ OS's, where 
bitching is required to keep your head from exploding." - S Stremler in afc

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