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syntactic innovation at the language parser level is a waste of time We are all language parsers. CoffeScript makes that easier to do. It may make very littl
by rimantas 16y ago
syntactic innovation at the language parser level is a
waste of time
We are all language parsers. CoffeScript makes that easier to do. It may make very little difference what to parse to the computer, but it may be big for us, humans.
learn a language that can change your life. Like a lisp.
Whoa. The language that changed my life (a bit) was English.
And by the way, do you literally mean lisp, or just functional paradigm?
- edw 16y agoI think CoffeeScript is easier for certain values of "easier". My position is that there are important senses in which easier can mean harder. You know, like how worse can be better. I literally meant a lisp. I'm a big fan of mostly-functional programming, but a functional tendency is just one of the features that hang together—along with the absence of syntax and lexical scoping and macros and maybe something I've forgotten—that make lisp what it is. My natural style is polemical. My thoughts tend to the nuanced. That's often a bad combination.