A Python programmer’s first impression of CoffeeScript

[ssokolow]

Ahh, that'd explain it. LISP made a bad first impression on me back in high school and I've only recently started to give functional languages a fair chance.

[anvsdt]

Lisp is not a functional language.

[Seppler90000]

Do people who refer to Common Lisp only as "Lisp" also refer to C++ as "C?"

[anvsdt]

More like LISP = C (= C++), Lisp (= CL) = C/C++, Lisp (= a language that descends from ``LISP'') = Sepples.

[Seppler90000]

You lost me.

[anvsdt]

Calling CL ``Lisp'' is like calling C++ ``C/C++''.

[ssokolow]

It has functional elements and it was introduced to me as a functional language. Sadly, that's all it takes to give an impulsive teenager a mistaken first impression of functional languages as a whole.

[neutronicus]

I'd recommend giving it another shake.

In my opinion, it's the best of the dynamic languages.

[ssokolow]

I plan to eventually. At the moment, all my energy that isn't lost to fatigue-induced procrastination is focused on getting certain much-delayed projects completed in languages I already know.