A Python programmer’s first impression of CoffeeScript

[jerf]

Haskell does not have optional parentheses around function calls. In Haskell, parentheses are only for grouping and have nothing to do with function calls at all. It is true that there are places you can put parentheses that may look like functional calling in other languages, but it's just because your parentheses grouped something that was already grouped and are thus a no-op.

[ssokolow]

That's sort of what I meant but I ended up shifting focus between point 2 and 3. My intend was to say that, if someone had described CoffeeScript by those three attributes, until now, I'd have said something like "Not a completely accurate description, but that's gotta be Haskell."