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The "simple language" comment was about CoffeeScript, not Javascript. One of the common complaints about CS is that you absolutely need to know what JS every no
by plorkyeran 13y ago
The "simple language" comment was about CoffeeScript, not Javascript. One of the common complaints about CS is that you absolutely need to know what JS every nontrivial CS contruct compiles to, but he doesn't consider this a big deal because there simply aren't very many of them. Scala, on the other hand, has more features that he considers "magic" than he can easily keep track of.