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sherkund on Sept 14, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: JavaScript is Not Web Assembly

It's a metaphor.

marshray on Sept 14, 2011 [–]

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.

stickfigure on Sept 15, 2011 | [–]

A simile is like a metaphor.

marshray on Sept 15, 2011 | | [–]

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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