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Sorry, but *you* need to take a closer look. What Verity actually wrote was a sloppy series of sentences in which "Java" and "JavaScript" were used seemingly interchangeably:

"The ActionScript language evolved, becoming more like Java. It took proposed features from the ECMAscript Edition 4 draft standard (pdf), which was going to be the brave new JavaScript. ActionScript got some static typing - whence came a lot of the speed, I believe - and more conventional support for classes: public and private, getters and setters, the class keyword itself.

So why not just program in Java, then?

Oh, they kept plenty of old JavaScript's agreeably mad features."

Pay particular attention to that last Q&A. Apology accepted.

Journalism isn't just an attempt to be technically true when picked apart (that would be politics), it is also an attempt to communicate ideas effectively. Verity just added to the Java/Javascript confusion.

> Just because something has become "more like" something else does not mean it has

> actually become anything akin to the something else.'

Since one meaning of akin is "to be similar to in property" or "like" that remark gets my Fail Of The Day.

> As in "John wore a dress because it made him more like a girlie"

Do you think all gay boys want to be girls or something?