Path: csiph.com!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.javascript,comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: questions re Javascript Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2015 19:40:35 -0400 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 43 Message-ID: References: <2b531f48-fff9-4c73-a116-22a3f110e919@googlegroups.com> <020920150828500988%timstreater@greenbee.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: NIM2IeSPVd0kE3mU1mieXw.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.2.0 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.javascript:28637 comp.lang.java.programmer:32531 On 9/4/2015 11:33 AM, Stefan Ram wrote: > =?UTF-8?Q?Joshua_Cranmer_=f0=9f=90=a7?= 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.«. I think the term "has nothing to do with" should be seen in context. If it is a thread about the evolution of languages and how they relate, then it is not a good statement. If it is a thread with a specific question about syntax/semantics/library, then I think it is a pretty good statement. Any attempt to answer a Java question based on JavaScript or a JavaScript question based on Java is very bad, because the risk of the answer being wrong is huge. And it is actually the same about English and French. If one is discussing history then certainly French influenced English after 1066 and in modern times English has probably influenced French a little bit as well (even though they try hard to create French equivalent words). But if it is a question about grammar rules and pronunciation, then it would most likely result in incorrect answers to try and answer question for one based on the other. Arne