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Herbert Kleebauer wrote:

> On 24.03.2016 11:31, Christoph M. Becker wrote:
>
>> Herbert Kleebauer wrote:
> 
>>> 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".  
> 
> Who is "generally"?

I meant to say that not everybody understands the term "javascript" as
you have defined it above.  Therefore your definition is not generally
accepted.

>> 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.
> 
> Sure. A "if", "for" or "while" doesn't need much discussion. I
> really would prefer a good documented minimal low level API.
> For example to read a binary file by http or ftp into an
> internal array without blocking sites different from the
> original html site. I even wouldn't care if I had to do
> the jpeg decoding with my own code.

And that's exactly the crux.  Asking for a "good[sic] documented minimal
low level API" for "javascript" is simply too imprecise (at best).
Which environments do you target?  Browsers?  Which ones?  Which
versions?  Some ECMAScript implementation running on a server?  Or
something else (e.g. Windows Scripting Host, Komodo Edit).

> But what has this all to do with the statement:
> 
> "There is no javascript."

See above.

-- 
Christoph M. Becker

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Read binary file Herbert Kleebauer <klee@unibwm.de> - 2016-03-16 23:20 +0100
  Re: Read binary file Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-03-17 01:04 +0100
    Re: Read binary file Stefan Weiss <krewecherl@gmail.com> - 2016-03-17 02:34 +0100
      Re: Read binary file Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-03-17 07:56 +0100
    Re: Read binary file Herbert Kleebauer <klee@unibwm.de> - 2016-03-17 08:31 +0100
      Re: Read binary file Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-03-17 19:10 +0100
        Re: Read binary file Stefan Weiss <krewecherl@gmail.com> - 2016-03-17 19:59 +0100
          Re: Read binary file Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-03-17 21:43 +0100
            Re: Read binary file Herbert Kleebauer <klee@unibwm.de> - 2016-03-17 22:36 +0100
              Re: Read binary file Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-03-17 23:15 +0100
              Re: Read binary file Stefan Weiss <krewecherl@gmail.com> - 2016-03-18 00:43 +0100
                Re: Read binary file Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-03-18 17:22 +0100
                Re: Read binary file Herbert Kleebauer <klee@unibwm.de> - 2016-03-18 21:14 +0100
                Re: Read binary file Matthias Wiehl <mw@kwarg.de> - 2016-03-19 00:02 +0100
                Re: Read binary file Herbert Kleebauer <klee@unibwm.de> - 2016-03-19 08:48 +0100
                There is no javascript (was: Read binary file) Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-03-19 13:02 +0100
                Re: There is no javascript (was: Read binary file) Mark - <nonemail@spamspamapam.net> - 2016-03-19 14:33 +0000
                Re: There is no javascript (was: Read binary file) Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2016-03-20 14:30 +1100
                Re: There is no javascript (was: Read binary file) Mark - <nonemail@spamspamapam.net> - 2016-03-20 13:07 +0000
                Re: There is no javascript (was: Read binary file) John Harris <niam@jghnorth.org.uk.invalid> - 2016-03-20 10:39 +0000
                Re: There is no javascript (was: Read binary file) John Harris <niam@jghnorth.org.uk.invalid> - 2016-03-20 11:19 +0000
                Re: There is no javascript (was: Read binary file) Philip Herlihy <thiswillbounceback@you.com> - 2016-03-21 17:06 +0000
                Re: Read binary file Scott Sauyet <scott.sauyet@gmail.com> - 2016-03-22 17:18 -0700
                Re: Read binary file "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2016-03-23 10:12 +0100
                Re: Read binary file John Harris <niam@jghnorth.org.uk.invalid> - 2016-03-23 16:27 +0000
                Re: Read binary file Herbert Kleebauer <klee@unibwm.de> - 2016-03-24 10:41 +0100
                Re: Read binary file "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2016-03-24 11:14 +0100
                Re: Read binary file John Harris <niam@jghnorth.org.uk.invalid> - 2016-03-24 11:41 +0000
                Re: Read binary file "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2016-03-24 13:36 +0100
                Re: Read binary file John Harris <niam@jghnorth.org.uk.invalid> - 2016-03-25 10:07 +0000
                Re: Read binary file "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2016-03-25 11:28 +0100
                Re: Read binary file "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2016-03-24 11:31 +0100
                Re: Read binary file Herbert Kleebauer <klee@unibwm.de> - 2016-03-24 12:34 +0100
                Re: Read binary file "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2016-03-24 17:15 +0100
                Re: Read binary file Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-03-24 11:33 +0000
                Re: Read binary file "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2016-03-24 11:05 +0100
                Re: Read binary file Scott Sauyet <scott.sauyet@gmail.com> - 2016-03-23 20:16 -0700
                Re: Read binary file "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2016-03-24 10:36 +0100
                Re: Read binary file "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2016-03-24 11:18 +0100
                Re: Read binary file Scott Sauyet <scott.sauyet@gmail.com> - 2016-03-27 10:22 -0700
                Re: Read binary file "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2016-03-28 00:18 +0200
                Re: Read binary file Scott Sauyet <scott.sauyet@gmail.com> - 2016-03-28 05:35 -0700
                Re: Read binary file "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2016-03-29 00:53 +0200
  Re: Read binary file Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-03-17 02:23 +0100
  Re: Read binary file Herbert Kleebauer <klee@unibwm.de> - 2016-03-17 08:42 +0100
  Re: Read binary file Dr J R Stockton <reply1600@merlyn.demon.co.uk.invalid> - 2016-03-20 22:03 +0000

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