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"Third Hand" languages ... for young teenagers who have nothing better to do and can't hack the real thing or think they are developing something useful. Been t
by lucian303 14y ago
"Third Hand" languages ... for young teenagers who have nothing better to do and can't hack the real thing or think they are developing something useful. Been there, done that.
- kamkha 14y agoIf you think CoffeeScript is solely for "young teenagers who have nothing better to do," your arrogance is obviously clouding your vision.
- lucian303 14y agoYou mean my experience writing such systems. Also my experience developing in JS. I quite dislike the language myself, but I'm not going to write in whatever happens to be the metalanguage in style. I'd rather spend my extra time learning a real language that can do what I can't do currently. Not one that does exactly the same thing.
- ojr 14y agoJavascript was made to be a target language ... Brendan Eich is a supporter of the BYOJ ( Build Your Own Javascript) movement
- lucian303 14y agoThat's because he knows how much his JS sucks as a language to program into.
- ToastOpt 14y agoWhich is a good thing, because just about every language sucks, but some languages realize it less than others. :-)
- BrendanEich 14y agoZing! Yes, JS sucks. It's also getting less sucky, because it won't go away. Kind of obvious at this point.
- jonbeebe 14y agoIt's a really great day in age to be a teenager then. :-)