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From: John G Harris on 7 Jun 2010 14:44
On Sun, 6 Jun 2010 at 10:46:17, in comp.lang.javascript, VK wrote:
>On Jun 6, 8:59�pm, John G Harris <j...(a)nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>> On Sun, 6 Jun 2010 at 03:17:39, in comp.lang.javascript, VK wrote:
>> >> <snip>>The document is misleadingly titled
>> >> >"ECMAScript Language Specification" which is false: there is not and
>> >> >never was such language and ECMA International never standardized it.
>>
>> >> <snip>
>>
>> >> Bwa ha ha ha ha ha ...
>>
>> >It may sound funny but true.
>>
>> � �<snip>
>>
>> A considerable majority of governments voted to call it ECMAScript. You
>> are outvoted. And out-ranked.
>>
>> See ISO/IEC 16262:2002, where it says
>> "1 Scope
>> � This International Standard defines the ECMAScript scripting language."
>
>They just repeated the wording from the first page of submitted paper.
>Fast track procedure, you know...

Fast track doesn't mean automatic. It could have been altered if
national standards committees thought it was very wrong.


>Who cares? Yet you are welcome to
>use ECMAScript in ECMA International sense - but only as defined by
>ECMA. I see windows.alert(val) or the like - I calling police if it's
>called anyhow else

We've been saying that for years. I'm glad you understand it.


>but JavaScript ;-) :-|

Have you given Microsoft a free licence to use the name in their product
advertisements ?

No ? Thought not.

John
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