FAQ Topic - What is JScript?

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FAQ Topic - What is JScript?
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JScript is Microsoft's implementation of ECMAScript.

Questions that are specific to Microsoft's JScript may also
be appropriately asked at:
microsoft.public.scripting.jscript


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[Evertjan.]

FAQ server wrote on 01 apr 2007 in comp.lang.javascript:

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FAQ Topic - What is JScript?
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JScript is Microsoft's implementation of ECMAScript.

Questions that are specific to Microsoft's JScript may also
be appropriately asked at:
microsoft.public.scripting.jscript

This FAQ entry has a temporary nature and
can be discontinued effective 2008-04-01, since:

04.01.07 Redmond, WA

The 4th of january!

Today it was officially announced that Microsoft is planning to
discontinue client-side JScript support effective 10.08.07

That is not a very effective way of planning effective, MS.

Is this 2007/08/10 or 2007/10/08?

The engine
will be blocked and removed on the scheduled August auto-update for
Windows XP and Windows Vista systems. The head of Microsoft Windows
Scripting department reminds to complete the move to VBScript
equivalents during the April-July transition period for all affected
solutions.

More information as well as useful tips for JScript to VBScript
transition can be found at:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa155073.aspx

Btw, VBscript itself will be discontinued on 2009/04/01,
open sources say: <http://slashdoc.org/vbscriptDecapitated/>

 

[Dylan Parry]

The 4th of january!

1st of April.

That is not a very effective way of planning effective, MS.

Presumably you just didn't note the date

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[Richard Cornford]

FAQ server wrote on 01 apr 2007 in comp.lang.javascript:

<snip>

Why have you attributed this to "FAQ server"? It was not part of the
message that you are replaying to and apparently quoting.

Richard.

 

[VK]

Presumably you just didn't note the date

I presume he did: this is why he posted a bogus URL for the VBScript
"news" just like I did for mine. In the US we call it "British humor"
sometimes: more serious your face is and more difficult to understand
that you are joking: so funnier the joke supposes to be.



P.S. See
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.javascript/msg/e1d6b0b690c12ddc

 

[Dylan Parry]

I presume he did: this is why he posted a bogus URL for the VBScript
"news" just like I did for mine. In the US we call it "British humor"
sometimes: more serious your face is and more difficult to understand
that you are joking: so funnier the joke supposes to be.

Ah... That I didn't see your post in this thread (mainly because it
wasn't) probably had a lot to do with me "not getting it"! Being

P.S. See
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.javascript/msg/e1d6b0b690c12ddc

--
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http://electricfreedom.org | http://webpageworkshop.co.uk

The opinions stated above are not necessarily representative of
those of my cats. All opinions expressed are entirely your own.

 

[Evertjan.]

Richard Cornford wrote on 01 apr 2007 in comp.lang.javascript:

<snip>

Why have you attributed this to "FAQ server"? It was not part of the
message that you are replaying to and apparently quoting.

I did not, you must have been confused,
as a new quote origin was suggested
with the word "since":

This FAQ entry has a temporary nature and
can be discontinued effective 2008-04-01, since:

 

[Richard Cornford]

Richard Cornford wrote on 01 apr 2007 in comp.lang.javascript:


I did not, you must have been confused,

I observed a message with a single attribution and no indication of a
quote from, or a citation, of a separate source.

as a new quote origin was suggested
with the word "since":

<snip>

That does not follow as a new section of a quote from a previous message
may well be preceded with "since", for example to suggest that the
person being quoted had already made the point.

Richard.