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From: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
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John Harris wrote:

> Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
>   <snip>
>> I probably have said this before: One should not call JScript etc.
>> “javascript” for the same reason that one should not call a cat a “dog”
>> (both are implementations of “domesticated animal equipped with a tail”).
> 
> animal <=> javascript
> cat    <=> JavaScript
> dog    <=> JScript

I rest my case.

JavaScript and JScript are _not_ implementations of an *imagined* 
programming language called “javascript”, but of a *specified* programming 
language called “ECMAScript”.  You can *look it up there* how they should 
work, and it most cases it does.

As perhaps a special case, conforming implementations of ECMAScript are 
allowed to extend the ECMAScript specification, providing features like 
Array destructuring (JavaScript) and Conditional Compilation (JScript).

>>Who prefers to call different things by the same name is not thinking
>>clearly.
> 
> Who refuses to discuss a group name for similar things is in
> write-only mode.

The *proper* “group name” (you were probably looking for “umbrella term”) is 
“implementations of ECMAScript”, or “ECMAScript implementations” for short.  
As simple as that.

And as for the newsgroup name, it has but historical reasons, the same as 
the newsgroup tagline and charter.  So arguing that you should use a 
misnomer because of the newsgroup name is only yet another fallacy.

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