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From: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
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Subject: Re: Motivation behind the web application viewer (WAVI) project
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 11:29:47 +0100
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John Harris wrote:

> […] Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn […] wrote: 
>> John Harris wrote:
>>> Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
>>>   <snip>
>>>>There is no ?javascript?.
>>>   <snip>
>>>   
>>> […]
>>> Therefore, when someone tells you they came to work by car today you
>>> must shout
>>>   THERE IS NO CAR!
>>>   
>>> What goes for 'car' goes for 'javascript'.
>>
>>If you were not that … unobservant, you would have realized that this
                         ^^^^^^^^^^^
>>sentence had a context, and that it is important for writing a code
>>analyzer that the syntax of different implementations of ECMAScript,
>>including those of different *Editions* of ECMAScript, is indeed 
>>*different*.  (And to understand *why* that is so.)
> 
> In that case why write "There is no javascript"? Why not be more
> informative and helpful by writing
>   "Remember that 'javascript' names a family of languages " ...

Because that would be confirming a misconception.

As regards “family of languages”: QED.

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