I really like CoffeeScript, but I don't think it's really closer to pseudocode than Python. Python, for example, eschews anonymous functions in favor of forcing

I really like CoffeeScript, but I don't think it's really closer to pseudocode than Python. Python, for example, eschews anonymous functions in favor of forcing you to name things. It also tries to avoid terse symbols for language features in favor of verbosity. To me, CoffeeScript syntax is somewhere between Python and Ruby.