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| From | Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> |
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.javascript, comp.lang.java.programmer |
| Subject | Re: questions re Javascript |
| Date | Fri, 04 Sep 2015 16:37:55 +0100 |
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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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