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Re: javascript

From	Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	Re: javascript
Date	2016-03-16 22:03 -0400
Organization	Aioe.org NNTP Server
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On 3/16/2016 10:00 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 3/16/2016 9:39 PM, Stefan Ram wrote:
>> =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?= <arne@vajhoej.dk> writes:
>>> On 3/16/2016 8:47 PM, Stefan Ram wrote:
>>>> =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?= <arne@vajhoej.dk> writes:
>>>>> On 3/16/2016 10:14 AM, Stefan Ram wrote:
>>>>>> What is the meaning of »x has nothing to do with y«?
>>>>> That they are distinct within their domain.
>>>> My dictionary says:
>>>> have to do with
>>>> 1. to be related to or connected with
>>>> 2. to be associated with; deal with
>>>> . So, the negation would be »not related«.
>>>> »Distinct« is much weaker than »not related<<, since
>>>> nearly /all/ things that are related still are distict.
>>> I think the terms may have slightly different meaning in general
>>> English and in a usenet discussion about what is on topic and what
>>> is not.
>>
>> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_pleading
>
> I think you will find that an attempt to always interpret
> words in a technical usenet group based on general English
> meaning would frequently result in total nonsense.

For starters then everybody knows that Java means coffee.

:-)

Would it be special pleading to assume that Java here would
be the programming language and not the more general usage of
coffee?

I don't think so.

Arne

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