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		stared on Jan 25, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Problems I Have with Python http://coconut-lang.org/ looks really interesting - it seems it is a patch exactly for parts of Python I am missing. (Though, not sure if want to use another language just that case. Vide CoffeeScript and JavaScript; in this case JS absorbed the best pars of CS.)

darkf on Jan 26, 2017 [–]

> in this case JS absorbed the best pars of CS.

Actually my favorite part of CS is the instance var intitialization. e.g.:

    constructor(@x, @y) ->

would initialize @x and @y to the arguments. It makes writing records much nicer.

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