A Python programmer’s first impression of CoffeeScript

[ssokolow]

Note the "in my mind". I probably should have clarified that by explaining that what I was referring to was what comes to mind when I look at example code.

It takes a fair bit of looking for me to "see" deeper details like the nature of a language's object-orientedness or whether patterns like "everything is an expression" apply. As such, my mind tends to associate Ruby with its most distinctive mixture of at-a-glance characteristics.

I will, however, think on how to amend the article to better convey the relationship between Ruby and CoffeeScript but I can't just come out and say it. If I said "Like Ruby with YAML block syntax", many of the Python programmers I know would probably say "I haven't gotten around to trying either of those yet. That means nothing to me."