A nice way to step into 2012

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-12-29 10:07, Max Samukha wrote:
> On 12/29/2011 01:49 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 28 December 2011 at 22:57:29 UTC, bearophile wrote:
>>> (while I have not written a significant amount of functional-style
>>> code in Javascript)
>>
>> It looks fine if you use named functions or a little whitespace
>> around the literals (same as D!).
>
> I had been a stupidly staunch defender of braces/semicolons before I
> actually tried the languages with significant indentation. Since then, I
> find C-like syntaxes not so attractive, to say the least. It takes a
> while to fall out of the bad habit typing all that punctuation but the
> result is rewarding.
>
> Comparing CoffeeScript and the equivalent JavaScript code at
> http://jashkenas.github.com/coffee-script/, it is obvious that
> JavaScript is unnecessarily noisy.

I completely agree. CoffeeScript is a really nice language. Except for 
the nicer syntax it's also really nice to have proper class based object 
model (or at least as proper it can be since it's compiled to a 
prototype model).

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/Jacob Carlborg