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Re:Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku by RussianCow on Friday October 11, 2019 @04:57PM (#21228395)
And same with ECMAScript 3 to 5.
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Re:Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku by WorldMaker on Friday October 11, 2019 @05:03PM (#21228446)
There was an ECMAScript 4, it just wasn't adopted by browsers. (It was semi-adopted for ActionScript 3.)
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Re:Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku by girvo on Friday October 11, 2019 @08:38PM (#21229670)
I thought the relationship went the other way, that AS 3 was going to be standardised as ECMAScript 4? Not that it matters, I’m likely remembering incorrectly!
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Re:Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku by WorldMaker on Monday October 14, 2019 @05:20PM (#21253022)
Standards are a two-way street, and we're probably both right from different points of view. (Especially, because AS 2 also had a number of the features proposed for ES 4, so even if AS 3 was "solely" inspired to be an implementation of the ES 4 standard, ES 4 itself took inspiration from AS 2.)
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