Re: questions re Javascript

From	Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.javascript, comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	Re: questions re Javascript
Followup-To	comp.lang.javascript
Date	2015-09-05 22:16 +0200
Organization	PointedEars Software (PES)
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Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:

> Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 9/4/2015 11:33 AM, Stefan Ram wrote:
>>>    What I objected to was the typical wording
>>>
>>>        »JavaScript /has nothing to do/ with Java.«.
>>>
>>>    To me, it would be disputable too when one would say,
>>>
>>>        »English has nothing to do with French.«.
>> 
>> I think the term "has nothing to do with" should be seen in context.
>> 
>> If it is a thread about the evolution of languages and how they
>> relate, then it is not a good statement.
>> 
>> If it is a thread with a specific question about
>> syntax/semantics/library, then I think it is a pretty good
>> statement.
> 
> The statement should be modified to say “has *little* to do with Java” in
> that context because JavaScript was intentionally designed to resemble
> Java syntactically and semantically.

And, I should add, probably as a result of the Sun/Netscape agreement, 
starting from version 1.2 (in Netscape 4.0), (Netscape) JavaScript was 
modified to access Java applets (a feature called LiveConnect, actually a 
part of the Netscape AOM, which was removed from the core language 
definition with version 1.4 (server-side only) and eventually became 
XPConnect, an official part of the Mozilla AOM, with Mozilla JavaScript 
1.5/Mozilla 1.0; the origin of the Netscape Plugin API [NPAPI] for which 
support is gradually being removed from browsers now), and Java was modified 
so that you could access JavaScript code from applets embedded in an HTML 
document (still called LiveConnect).

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPAPI> p.

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questions re Javascript rdelaney2001@gmail.com - 2015-09-01 15:34 -0700
  Re: questions re Javascript mentificium@gmail.com - 2015-09-01 15:58 -0700
  Re: questions re Javascript Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2015-09-02 08:28 +0100
    Re: questions re Javascript "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2015-09-03 00:43 +0200
      Re: questions re Javascript "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2015-09-03 01:45 +0200
      Re: questions re Javascript Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2015-09-03 19:57 -0400
        Re: questions re Javascript "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2015-09-04 02:37 +0200
    Re: questions re Javascript Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2015-09-03 20:01 -0400
      Re: questions re Javascript Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2015-09-04 08:46 +0000
      Re: questions re Javascript Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-09-05 09:35 +0200
    Re: questions re Javascript Joshua Cranmer 🐧 <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2015-09-04 10:09 -0500
      Re: questions re Javascript Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2015-09-04 16:37 +0100
        Re: questions re Javascript Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2015-09-04 22:51 +0100
          Re: questions re Javascript Eternal Hope <laughingspam99@gmail.com> - 2015-09-05 20:29 +0100
      Re: questions re Javascript "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2015-09-04 18:17 +0200
      Re: questions re Javascript Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2015-09-04 19:40 -0400
        Re: questions re Javascript Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-09-05 09:47 +0200
          Re: questions re Javascript Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-09-05 22:16 +0200
    Re: questions re Javascript Luuk <luuk@invalid.lan> - 2015-09-05 14:14 +0200
  Re: questions re Javascript Jay Braun <lyngwyst@gmail.com> - 2015-09-02 14:42 -0700
  Re: questions re Javascript Chuck Anderson <seemysig@thisis.invalid> - 2015-09-05 03:22 -0600

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