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major fail

• yesbabyyes 15y ago
  As a CoffeeScript - and JavaScript - fan, I must say that TJ's JavaScript is among the best code I've seen, in any language.
  • tjholowaychuk 15y ago
    syntax doesn't make code beautiful, you can trust me on that one. I've seen beautiful C, lisp, erlang, js, asm, you name it. IMO the fanboy-ish nature of CS just screams naivety to me, kinda like when Ruby people think its syntax is "amazing", they all suck just in different ways :D haha if anything lisp is probably conceptually the most elegant
    • rimantas 15y ago
      True, you can find ugly parts anywhere if you look hard enough. This however does not make everything the same. There is a huge difference if you encounter ugliness in every line you write or just in obscure cases. Syntax does matter.
  • tjholowaychuk 15y ago
    actually now that i think about it, maybe that's why people like CS so much, their own inability to write clean code