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From: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
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Subject: "javascript" (was: OT: "javascript")
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Christoph Becker wrote:

> Evertjan. wrote:
>>> Brendan Eich, the creator of JavaScript,
>> According to sources on this NG,
>> he cannot have created that
>> that as it did and does not exist.
> 
> You're probably referring to Thomas Lahn as these sources, but he'd
> never said, that JavaScript doesn't exist, but that there is neither
> javascript nor Javascript.  Note the capitalization.

ACK.  However, it is *not* *just* a matter of letter case, as I have 
emphasized in the “Foreword and Rationale” section of the ECMAScript Support 
Matrix [1] (updated 2013-02-16).  That will become more apparent later.

> As ECMAScript is a case-sensitive language, and `JavaScript' and
> `javascript' designate different identifiers, one can easily agree with
> Thomas. 

It is not a good strategy to attempt to refute fallacies with another 
fallacy.  That ECMAScript as a programming language is case-sensitive has 
nothing to do with “javascript” and “Javascript” being misleading terms.

> OTOH it's contradictory to read in this NG's FAQ:

I am aware of that.

> | The term "javascript" is used as a common name for all dialects of
> | ECMAScript.[1][2]
> 
> [1] <http://jibbering.com/faq/#ecma>

That resource is no longer maintained since more than two years, and it is 
frequently offline.

> [2] <http://pointedears.de/scripts/faq/cljs/#ecma>

I am working on that.

I fail to see how so basic an issue as the terminology for these languages, 
and the FAQ of/for this newsgroup, can be off-topic here.  See the new 
Subject also for an example how a proper change of Subject is done on Usenet 
(speakers of German may refer to the “Netiquette für "de.*"”, item 7).  TIA.

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