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Coffeescript is pretty damn ugly. For god sakes can people please use parenthesis when calling functions with arguments?

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I do it in my coffeescript for function calls. You just need some guidelines and some discipline.

Why add unnecessary clutter?

Lisp programmers would love to disagree

Parenthesis are not unnecessary in Lisp they're an essential delimiter in defining an s-expression's structure (does not need to be parenthesis but some token is required).

But for me that one bit of syntax is a lot less that the multitude required for many languages.

For something even more syntactically minimal there is Forth.

It is not unnecessary, it helps the reader building a mental model about what is a function and what is not. I would concede It can be useful to create some DSL or to access an object lazily but the is a price to pay: a more opaque code base

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