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Re: automatically correct the parts of speech of a document

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Joao Rodrigues wrote:

> On 09/13/2014 11:33 AM, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
>> Nobody named a programming language „Javascript“ in the last century;
>> Brendan Eich developed a programming language that was eventually named
>> “JavaScript” and became the first implementation of ECMAScript.
> 
> You're wrong:

I am not.

> The first edition of ECMAScript appeared 2 years after the
> advent of JavaScript in May, 1995 by Brendan Eich.

True, but irrelevant.

> Then, it is illogical that JavaScript has become "the first implementation
> of ECMAScript".

Your logic is flawed.  I wrote “eventually” on purpose.  Netscape JavaScript 
1.3 was designed as an implementation of the first Edition of ECMAScript; 
subsequent versions and implementations by other vendors were designed as 
implementations of that and other Editions of ECMAScript.

<https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Guide/JavaScript_Overview#JavaScript_and_the_ECMAScript_Specification>

(That text has survived from the original Netscape JavaScript 1.x Guide, see 
also 
<http://web.archive.org/web/19991012135105/http://developer.netscape.com/docs/manuals/js/client/jsguide/intro.htm#1013654>

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automatically correct the parts of speech of a document Anupam Jamatia <anupamjamatia@gmail.com> - 2014-09-13 00:13 -0700
  Re: automatically correct the parts of speech of a document "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2014-09-13 09:39 +0200
    Re: automatically correct the parts of speech of a document Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-09-13 09:35 +0100
    Re: automatically correct the parts of speech of a document Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-09-13 16:33 +0200
      Re: automatically correct the parts of speech of a document "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2014-09-13 16:56 +0200
        Re: automatically correct the parts of speech of a document Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-09-13 17:10 +0200
      Re: automatically correct the parts of speech of a document Joao Rodrigues <groups_jr-1@yahoo.com> - 2014-09-13 12:02 -0300
        Re: automatically correct the parts of speech of a document Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-09-13 17:24 +0200
          Re: automatically correct the parts of speech of a document Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-09-13 18:01 +0100
            Re: automatically correct the parts of speech of a document Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-09-13 19:44 +0200
              Re: automatically correct the parts of speech of a document John Harris <niam@jghnorth.org.uk.invalid> - 2014-09-13 19:37 +0100
              Re: automatically correct the parts of speech of a document Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-09-13 20:36 +0100
                Re: automatically correct the parts of speech of a document Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-09-14 01:48 +0200
    Re: automatically correct the parts of speech of a document John Harris <niam@jghnorth.org.uk.invalid> - 2014-09-13 19:48 +0100
  Re: automatically correct the parts of speech of a document Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2014-09-13 12:16 +0100

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