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It's not about the time it takes to type code. Code that requires less typing is more succinct and therefore easier to read and understand.

You don't find it easier to read. Fair enough. I think a lot of people do. I personally found it much easier to write structured code in Coffeescript than in Javascript straight.

I'm sorry but what? Are python and ruby ugly and unreadable? Are they on the same level as js? Because coffeescript syntax is essentially a combination of the best aspects of both with a cleaner lambda syntax. I'd love to hear which languages you find beautiful and readable if cs doesn't meet your standards.

Agree to disagree about what is UGLY.

true we should all write machine code.

If someone likes x over y, it means they must like the most extreme thing possible that is different from y in the way x is!!

Why make that point? It has absolutely no intellectual content.

High-level languages are more than just syntactic sugar.