RE: y2k in netscape 4.08

On 6 Jan 00, at 8:10, John Erjavec V wrote:

> >I guess what most folks are saying is that, to a really large number
> >of programmers (ADA, C, C++, Java, Perl, shell, and so on), the
> >year IS $t[5] + 1900 (or something very similar).
> 
> I agree with this as well.  I guess I just have a problem with people 
> implementing a language in a way that goes against the language definition, 
> and saying that they implemented the language.  How non-compliant do you 
> have to be before you have to start calling it something else?

IMHO Microsoft implements JScript, not JavaScript. JScript is 
Microsofts implementation, with some subtle differences, of 
JavaScript. So they gave it another name, actually creating another 
language. I guess that they have the right, and the marketing 
power, to do that, and that they can make it as different as they 
like.

Ronald
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