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From: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.javascript
Subject: Re: Motivation behind the web application viewer (WAVI) project
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2015 15:17:12 +0100
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John Harris wrote:

> Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
>   <snip>
>>There is no “javascript”.
>   <snip>
>   
> Concerning 'car' :
> Some small passenger vehicles have 4 road wheels. Some have 3 road
> wheels. One even had 2 road wheels; it used a dirty great gyro to
> keep it upright. There are significant differences between them.
> 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.)

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