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major fail


As a CoffeeScript - and JavaScript - fan, I must say that TJ's JavaScript is among the best code I've seen, in any language.


actually now that i think about it, maybe that's why people like CS so much, their own inability to write clean code


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


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.




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