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Was CoffeeScript invented to help Ruby programmers get over that dirty yucky feeling they get when working in JavaScript?

4th February 2012

My answer to Was CoffeeScript invented to help Ruby programmers get over that dirty yucky feeling they get when working in JavaScript? on Quora

The original Prototype JS library might fit that description—more than CoffeeScript, at any rate.

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