Re: TypeScript

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From	Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
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Michael Haufe (TNO) wrote:

[Full quote intended]

> On Sunday, January 20, 2013 2:48:01 PM UTC-6, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn
> wrote:
>> Michael Haufe (TNO) wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> > On Sunday, January 20, 2013 6:11:59 AM UTC-6, Seshu Koorella wrote:
>> 
>> >> Introduction to TypeScript a open source super set of JavaScript from
>> 
>> >> Microsoft.
>> 
>> > 
>> 
>> > I believe TypeScript is off-topic as much as CoffeeScript,
>> > ActionScript,
>> 
>> > JScript.NET, Mascara, and other "supersets" of JavaScript. The
>> > soon-to-be
>> 
>> > ES6 would be on-topic though
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> I do not know about TypeScript, but you are mistaken about most of the
>> other
>> 
>> languages.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> It is particular nonsense to say that JScript .NET would be a “superset”
>> of
>> 
>> JavaScript.  In fact, their similarity draws from the fact that both of
>> them
>> 
>> are implementations of ECMAScript:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> JavaScript is Netscape's, now Mozilla.org's, implementation of ECMAScript
>> 
>> Editions 1, 2, 3, and (currently) 5.x.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> JScript .NET (JScript 8.x and 10.x) is Microsoft's implementation of a
>> 
>> Netscape proposal for ECMAScript Edition 4 which, among other features,
>> 
>> provides class-based inheritance, and was maintained by Waldemar Horwat
>> of
>> 
>> Netscape back then, that has been adapted for Microsoft's .NET framework.

This is next to unreadable.  Do not use Google Groups for posting.

> I used scare quotes consciously. I have heard the superset claim more than
> once in relation to each of these languages, where a more accurate term
> would be divergence. The word JavaScript is being used in its common
> parlance.

If saying “‘superset’ of JavaScript” when meaning “ECMAScript 
implementation” is “common parlance”, then, unsurprisingly,
”common parlance” is utterly wrong.

> "JavaScript" is not a context free word as much as one may wish
> otherwise.

Spoken like a true ignorant.  Oh well, you cannot say I did not try.

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http://seshukv.blogspot.in/2013/01/typescript-introduction.html Seshu Koorella <kurella.seshu@gmail.com> - 2013-01-20 04:11 -0800
  Re: http://seshukv.blogspot.in/2013/01/typescript-introduction.html "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2013-01-20 09:27 -0800
    TypeScript (was: http://seshukv.blogspot.in/2013/01/typescript-introduction.html) Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-01-20 21:48 +0100
      Re: TypeScript (was: http://seshukv.blogspot.in/2013/01/typescript-introduction.html) "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2013-01-20 14:04 -0800
        Re: TypeScript Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-01-20 23:08 +0100
          Re: TypeScript "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2013-01-20 14:42 -0800

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