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Re:JavaScript is Not Web Assembly by sherkund on Wednesday September 14, 2011 @06:04PM (#2998046)
It's a metaphor.
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Re:JavaScript is Not Web Assembly by marshray on Wednesday September 14, 2011 @06:38PM (#2998135)
The first sentence is:

It’s fairly common these days to think of JavaScript as a sort of “assembly language for the web”.

That's definitely a simile, not a metaphor.

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Re:JavaScript is Not Web Assembly by stickfigure on Thursday September 15, 2011 @01:30AM (#2999015)
A simile is like a metaphor.
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Re:JavaScript is Not Web Assembly by marshray on Thursday September 15, 2011 @03:16PM (#3001711)
Certainly moreso than Javascript is like assembly language.

Upon seeing that article I was like "Oh yeah, I get the two confused all the time WTF?!"

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