Simon Willison’s Weblog

grammar.coffee (via) The annotated grammar for CoffeeScript, a new language that compiles to JavaScript developed by DocumentCloud’s Jeremy Ashkenas. The linked page is generated using Jeremy’s Docco tool for literate programming, also written in CoffeeScript. CoffeeScript itself is implemented in CoffeeScript, using a bootstrap compiler originally written in Ruby.

# 8th March 2010, 7:27 pm / compilers, javascript, coffeescript, documentcloud, jeremy-ashkenas, docco, literateprogramming, programming, selfhosting, ruby