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If that fries your pickle, whenever anybody says JavaScript, I think they really mean ECMAscript.

• Freedom2 3y ago
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  • jrajav 3y ago
    None of these semantics actually exist. Javascript is the language, and it was released as an implementation first, then a standards body worked on a specification for it. For various reasons (bickering, trademark), the specification was called ECMAScript. ECMAScript is the specification for Javascript. That's it. There's nothing clever to be had here, it's just odd historical trivia.
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    • simonbw 3y ago
      I'd just like to point out that the parent is a variant on the GNU/Linux copypasta: https://stallman-copypasta.github.io/ https://stallman-copypasta.github.io/
      • zeven7 3y ago
        I'll allow it. Downvote removed
      • floydnoel 3y ago
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  • ncr100 3y ago
    I always thought, inaccurately, that Javascript was simply the 'navigator' object and a few other objects, glued into the namespace. I did not know that it was standardized, though .. duh .. it would have to be I now realize. TY for the interesting comment @Freedom2, it's informative for me.
• Endy 3y ago
  They absolutely do, and I honestly get annoyed when ECMAScript gets misnamed. If you're putting a virtual machine with pseudocode into my browser, I want your applet gone.
• goto11 3y ago
  Is that distinction really significant? I know JavaScript is a trademark owned by Oracle, but in practice it is used interchangeably with ECMASCript.