Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!newsfeed101.telia.com!starscream.dk.telia.net!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!npeer.de.kpn-eurorings.net!npeer-ng0.de.kpn-eurorings.net!newsfeed.arcor.de!newsspool2.arcor-online.net!news.arcor.de.POSTED!not-for-mail Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Message-ID: <3649895.Pvjh1iD0xn@PointedEars.de> From: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn Reply-To: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn Organization: PointedEars Software (PES) Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2013 23:08:55 +0100 User-Agent: KNode/4.4.11 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8Bit Subject: Re: TypeScript Newsgroups: comp.lang.javascript References: <367afdeb-b4ff-4b21-a925-ff321838ee1f@googlegroups.com> <8342885.iO4lWsvZkY@PointedEars.de> <9741697a-b6d9-4db8-b2ce-1ba3a1c92602@googlegroups.com> Followup-To: comp.lang.javascript MIME-Version: 1.0 Lines: 81 NNTP-Posting-Date: 20 Jan 2013 23:08:57 CET NNTP-Posting-Host: 4f3aa35d.newsspool1.arcor-online.net X-Trace: DXC=;@j^YBYU3JEoMPD[TO6gce@D X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@arcor.de Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.javascript:18172 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. -- PointedEars Twitter: @PointedEars2 Please do not Cc: me. / Bitte keine Kopien per E-Mail.