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Re: Motivation behind the web application viewer (WAVI) project

From Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
Newsgroups comp.lang.javascript
Subject Re: Motivation behind the web application viewer (WAVI) project
Date 2015-02-23 15:17 +0100
Organization PointedEars Software (PES)
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John Harris wrote:

> Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
>   <snip>
>>There is no “javascript”.
>   <snip>
>   
> Concerning 'car' :
> Some small passenger vehicles have 4 road wheels. Some have 3 road
> wheels. One even had 2 road wheels; it used a dirty great gyro to
> keep it upright. There are significant differences between them.
> 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.)

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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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