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Discussion on: What common programming concept has the wrong name?

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Ryan McConnell

JavaScript has nothing to do with Java.

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Kevin Ard

I blew the designers' minds a few weeks ago with the "car and carnation" analogy 😅

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Adam Outler

I prefer Java is to JavaScript as car is to carpet. Just like there is some carpet in a car, there is some minor overlap, but they're totally different things.

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Shaurya

There's also grape and grapefruit, they both are fruits but totally different ones.

taken from the r/learnprogramming faq

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Charles Wood

This is perfect because they're more similar to each other than either one is to, say, Haskell, so they're not totally unrelated.

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Ruby Rubenstahl

I generally just tell people plainly that it was a marketing ploy and that they have nothing to do with each other aside from the fact that they are both programming languages.

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Chris C

That would explain why I don't want to touch it with a 50-foot pole lol