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From: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
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Patricia Shanahan wrote:

> On 12/8/2012 8:04 AM, John G Harris wrote:
> > If you use 'JavaScript' you have a problem. You would be able to say
> > 'JScript' for Microsoft's product and 'ActionScript' for Adobe's
> > product, but you would have to say 'Mozilla's JavaScript, I mean the one
> > in Firefox' for the Mozilla/Firefox product.
> 
> […]
> I searched on amazon.com for "ECMAScript". The second item did have the
> title "What's New in ECMAScript 5". However, most of the first screenful
> of results used "JavaScript" in the book title. The general convention
> seems to be to use "JavaScript" to refer to the language in general, and
> ECMAScript when talking about that particular standardization effort.
> 
> If the objective is to write a FAQ people can understand, we have to use
> the term most books and other writings use, the term readers will be
> used to. That is clearly "JavaScript".

Your logic is flawed.  Two wrongs make no right.  The FAQ should not promote 
misconceptions of incompetent people (or people who were forced by their 
publishers to change the title, which is essentially the same).


PointedEars
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