Path: csiph.com!news.mixmin.net!weretis.net!feeder1.news.weretis.net!news.solani.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Christoph M. Becker" Newsgroups: comp.lang.javascript Subject: Re: Read binary file Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2016 11:31:42 +0100 Organization: solani.org Lines: 40 Message-ID: References: <145821661.4prVZSFEgG@PointedEars.de> <2237637.9AE1fihV9u@PointedEars.de> <6005521.MME42bj82n@PointedEars.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: solani.org 1458815506 22934 eJwNysEBwEAEBMCW4rBcOYjtv4Rk3uMKwYTBYU7nhhmFic0lLXKfmcW/TmvJVJTy9olI0fv2BynkEXM= (24 Mar 2016 10:31:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@news.solani.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2016 10:31:46 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.6.0 X-User-ID: eJwFwYEBwDAEBMCVqjwxDi/2HyF3UBdnmMMNi6Vnnl+P5fSgpobx6WawcK3FrwlFiBI0ax8kGhG9 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:aylGAeA+sSPeDUlmclrf+FcuHfM= X-NNTP-Posting-Host: eJwFwQEBwDAIAzBNPVA6OcCHfwlLwghOOoMeG8v+Ud948CwVyYVV+x1XNStNOVdlAHS0+QAcphDl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.javascript:30103 Herbert Kleebauer wrote: > On 23.03.2016 17:27, John Harris wrote: > >> What do you think someone new to this Newsgroup will think when >> someone shouts "There is no javascript" at them with no further >> information? > > His problem is, that he is not able to express his opinion in > a few, short and understandable sentences. I'm still not sure > what's his problem with "javascript" so I stopped answering him. > > As I understand it: > > 1. There is JavaScript, a trademark of Oracle. Only Oracle defines > what JavaScript is an who gets a license to use the word JavaScript ACK. > 2. There is a ECMA-262 standard and a trademark ECMAScript owned by > Ecma International ACK. > 3. And there is javascript, a name for a group of languages which > implements ECMA-262 or part of it or are just similar to > ECMA-262 or JavaScript. NAK. The term "javascript" is not generally understood to be synonymous to "ECMAScript implementations". The FAQ of this newsgroup[1] define(s|d) it this way, though. Anyhow, one of the issues when using the umbrella term "javascript" is that often not only "ECMAScript implementations" are meant, but rather libraries/APIs (e.g. the DOM) are meant as well what dilutes the discussion even more. [1] -- Christoph M. Becker