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Language Design: Are languages like Python and CoffeeScript really more comprehensible?

The “Verbally Readable !== Quicker Comprehension” argument on http://ryanflorence.com/2011/case-against-coffeescript/ is really potent and interesting. I and I’m sure others would be very interested in evidence arguing against this. There’s clear evidence for this and I believe it. People naturally think in images, not words, so we should be designing languages that aren’t similar to human language like English, French, whatever.

CoffeeScript and Named Functions

Elsewhere, an argument has arisen over the terminology of a named function in CoffeeScript. In particular someone referred to something like this:

How can CoffeeScript be written in CoffeeScript? [duplicate]

This question already has answers here: How could the first C++ compiler be written in C++? (5 answers) Closed 11 years ago. How is it possible that written a programming language like CoffeeScript in itself like CoffeeScript? Firstly CoffeeScript doesn’t exist that read CoffeeScript scripts and interpret them? programming-languages coffeescript 0 First you design a […]

How can CoffeeScript be written in CoffeeScript? [duplicate]

This question already has answers here: How could the first C++ compiler be written in C++? (5 answers) Closed 11 years ago. How is it possible that written a programming language like CoffeeScript in itself like CoffeeScript? Firstly CoffeeScript doesn’t exist that read CoffeeScript scripts and interpret them? programming-languages coffeescript 0 First you design a […]

Pattern that prevents events to trigger themselves

I am working at the client-side part of a web application, that is responsible for getting answers from users for specific questions and storing and restoring them from the database (or cookies) and I am running into the issue that updating the answers from the db will also trigger saving them again (because the same method answerQuestion is called).