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Re: server-side vs.client-side [message #183552 is a reply to message #183551] Wed, 30 October 2013 21:07 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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On 10/30/2013 4:55 PM, Christoph Michael Becker wrote:
> Jerry Stuckle wrote:
>
>> On 10/30/2013 3:54 PM, Christoph Michael Becker wrote:
>>> Jerry Stuckle wrote:
>>>
>>>> One question - since both you and Thomas seem to be from Germany, and
>>>> have the same misunderstanding of the word "normally", what does
>>>> "normally" translate to in German? What does it mean?
>>>
>>> In Germany it is "normalerweise"/"üblicherweise", what means as much
>>> usually. Anyway, a misunderstanding of the term "normally" is not the
>>> problem here for me. In my opinion, it is correct to state: "PHP is
>>> normally (usually, most often etc.) used on a server (for server-side
>>> programming)."
>>>
>>> It is as well correct to state: "No programming language is normally
>>> either server-side or client-side." Otherwise it would mean, that there
>>> are programming languages that couldn't be used outside of a
>>> client-server context.
>>>
>>
>> But "normally" in English doesn't mean it can't be used otherwise - it
>> just means most of the time it is not.
>
> That is the same in German. However, one *might* argue that "normally"
> stems from "norm", and so should be used only in this strict sense. I
> do not, and have not done.
>
>> For instance, people "normally" drive their cars on roads. But that
>> does not mean they can't take them off-road (obviously the conditions
>> must be right or you get stuck :) ). As an example, Daytona Beach,
>> Florida has very hard packed sand. It is not at all unusual to see
>> people driving regular street cars on the beach.
>
> So one may say: "No car is normally either driven on a road or on a
> beach". Besides that a car might be driven on grassland (the point I
> had already made explicit), it may be driven on a road as well as on a
> beach (not simultaneously, though, but the same programming language may
> well be used simultaneously on the server as well as on the client).
>

No, at least in English, that would not be correct, because cars are
driven on roads probably > 99% of the time (at least in the U.S.). That
is their "normal usage".



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