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Re:CoffeeScript: less typing, bad readability by paul-woolcock on Tuesday September 18, 2012 @08:08AM (#4537533)
I always thought CS was a "kinda-python-y" version of Javascript, though I never actually used it. It surprised me, therefore, to see that the OP considers these two items to be principles applied to the design of the language:

  - Implicit is better than explicit

  - There is more than one way to do it
These are the exact _opposite_ of a couple of the principles of the design of Python[1].

1: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020/

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Re:CoffeeScript: less typing, bad readability by DasIch on Tuesday September 18, 2012 @08:13AM (#4537547)
Indeed but they obviously seem to apply to CS as he has shown in his examples.
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Re:CoffeeScript: less typing, bad readability by paul-woolcock on Tuesday September 18, 2012 @12:56PM (#4539168)
Oh, I agree, it was just surprising to me to see them there.
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