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Comment by arrowgunz | Hacker News Reader

That is so sad. I am not a fan of CoffeeScript. The language is like Ruby and When people try to make one language look like another, I don't like it. I probably would have liked it if the syntax was a bit different. It looks more like a ruby propaganda.

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This is the weirdest, least substantial criticism I've ever seen of CoffeeScript. Do you hate C for looking like B? Python for looking like a cross between C and ABC? Haskell for looking like ML? Objective-C for looking like both C and Smalltalk? Almost every mainstream language for pretty strongly resembling ALGOL-68? Heck, Ruby itself was intentionally made to look like Perl. Criticizing a language's syntax is often just an expression of personal preference — but criticizing a language for using syntactic conventions that are familiar and generally well-liked? That just makes no sense.

Every language is derivative. C++ looks like C. C# looks like Java. Scheme looks like Lisp. It's OK to stand on the shoulders of giants.

To be honest, CoffeeScript feels a lot more like python than it does Ruby

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