Numbered lists are commonly used by large language models (LLMs) for several reasons:
1. **Clarity**: Breaking down information into numbered steps or points makes complex topics easier to understand, guiding the user through the content in a structured way.
2. **Organization**: LLMs often generate large amounts of information. A numbered list provides an organized format, helping users track individual points more effectively.
3. **Conciseness**: Numbered lists encourage brevity and focus on key points, reducing the chance of tangents or overly long responses.
4. **Task-Oriented Responses**: When answering step-by-step questions or explaining processes, numbered lists align with the structure of tasks, where one point follows logically from the previous one.
5. **User Expectation**: Many people are familiar with numbered lists for explanations and instructions, making the format user-friendly and recognizable.
In essence, numbered lists are an efficient way to present information clearly and succinctly.
meh, let's just call it ECMAScript, awkward name for an awkward language.
Nothing really stopping using `.es` / `.mes` instead of `.js` / `.mjs` file extension - really only microsoft windows even cares much about file extensions anyway.
Kind of annoying RFC9239 recommended `text/ecmascript` be the "obsolete" mime-type and `text/javascript` the normal one though! Exactly the wrong way round! Thanks IETF. Thietf.
JavaScript also continues to mislead people to this day it's got much to do with Java (obviously a *much* better language, even if you hate it), and ...it just doesn't really.
I'm not saying they're not, but if I were to rename all my files to `.es` to satisfy some purity, it wouldn't he particularly helpful to say "you'll have to change your IDE settings to allow for this thing that has always worked". You also have to change your Git GUI if you use one, and...
Well, we can always rename it to something that allows us to keep the extension. Here are a few suggestions:
- JokeScript
- JackShit
- JizzSock
- JiggSaw
- JavaSucks
- JumbledSpaghetti
Probably not *by default* in current versions, dunno, but telling them what filetypes to infer from what dos/windows-style filename dot-extensions is normally an end-user exposed configurable setting on normal IDEs/editors anyway.
* https://help.eclipse.org/latest/index.jsp?topic=%2Forg.eclipse.platform.doc.user%2Freference%2Fref-13.htm
* https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/creating-and-registering-file-types.html#register-new-association
Though note there's typically several other ways for an ide/editor to guess at a filetype besides a windows-style extension or to impose one e.g. jetbrains ides definitely can also use a typical #! line in scripts, emacs [looks for](https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Specifying-File-Variables.html) its special comment, etc.
JavaScript is a generic term. Oracle deserves to lose trademark protection. I think a court would probably agree, though I don’t know anyone who wants to fight Oracles infamously aggressive lawyers.
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