> Among other things, the C parser will look for curly braces, and the VB.NET parser will look for the eye soring Then keyword.

Here I would pick up the article and write this:

No matter which language I start with, the end result is always the same. So maybe I could simply write out what is important for me:

  if price > 100
    10
  else
    5

And then I realized I was coding in CoffeeScript.