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		dekz on Jan 5, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Node.js stdlib ported to CoffeeScript (6,501 addit... You do realise jash (the one you replied to) is the creator of coffeescript? There are horrible ways to write a lot of code, especially in whitespace based languages. What does petty comparisons like this bring to the argument?

limeblack on Jan 5, 2012 [–]

You can read the logic here: https://github.com/joyent/node/pull/2472#issuecomment-337831...

Basically it would be a lot easier if a ending delimiter was the default for the language.

leptons on Jan 6, 2012 | [–]

It would be a lot easier if done in javascript

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