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| From | Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.javascript |
| Subject | Re: Motivation behind the web application viewer (WAVI) project |
| Date | 2015-02-26 11:29 +0100 |
| Organization | PointedEars Software (PES) |
| Message-ID | <1810599.KPGe1rmngT@PointedEars.de> (permalink) |
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John Harris wrote:
> […] Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn […] wrote:
>> John Harris wrote:
>>> Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
>>> <snip>
>>>>There is no ?javascript?.
>>> <snip>
>>>
>>> […]
>>> Therefore, when someone tells you they came to work by car today you
>>> must shout
>>> THERE IS NO CAR!
>>>
>>> What goes for 'car' goes for 'javascript'.
>>
>>If you were not that
unobservant, you would have realized that this
^^^^^^^^^^^
>>sentence had a context, and that it is important for writing a code
>>analyzer that the syntax of different implementations of ECMAScript,
>>including those of different *Editions* of ECMAScript, is indeed
>>*different*. (And to understand *why* that is so.)
>
> In that case why write "There is no javascript"? Why not be more
> informative and helpful by writing
> "Remember that 'javascript' names a family of languages " ...
Because that would be confirming a misconception.
As regards “family of languages”: QED.
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Motivation behind the web application viewer (WAVI) project bakunin95 <jocl06@hotmail.com> - 2015-02-21 16:56 -0800
Re: Motivation behind the web application viewer (WAVI) project Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-02-22 12:40 +0100
Re: Motivation behind the web application viewer (WAVI) project bakunin95 <jocl06@hotmail.com> - 2015-02-22 06:37 -0800
Re: Motivation behind the web application viewer (WAVI) project Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-02-22 19:29 +0100
Re: Motivation behind the web application viewer (WAVI) project John Harris <niam@jghnorth.org.uk.invalid> - 2015-02-23 10:20 +0000
Re: Motivation behind the web application viewer (WAVI) project Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-02-23 15:17 +0100
Re: Motivation behind the web application viewer (WAVI) project John Harris <niam@jghnorth.org.uk.invalid> - 2015-02-24 09:58 +0000
Re: Motivation behind the web application viewer (WAVI) project Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-02-26 11:29 +0100
Re: Motivation behind the web application viewer (WAVI) project John Harris <niam@jghnorth.org.uk.invalid> - 2015-02-26 19:26 +0000
Re: Motivation behind the web application viewer (WAVI) project Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-02-27 05:48 +0100
Re: Motivation behind the web application viewer (WAVI) project John Harris <niam@jghnorth.org.uk.invalid> - 2015-02-27 10:26 +0000
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