trivia

• Coco stands for:

  • CoffeeScript compact
  • Cocoa (like Pearl)

• Perl over Ruby because:

  • Perl dreams juicy future, from which we borrow many. Ruby not so much (yet).
  • Perl offers more for our purpose. (It's a root of modern scripting languages, after all.)
    • Most of Ruby features that went into CoffeeScript were actually from Perl.
    • JavaScript inherits from Perl already, e.g.: Array methods, regex, "use strict" etc.
  • CoffeeScript's adoption of Ruby-esque variable scope was a mistake.

• throw throw is valid.

• void 8 - the number 8 was chosen because it is a Chinese lucky number.