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It means that you can run

  coffee yourprogram.litcoffee
and it will run the CoffeeScript program in your document.

On the other hand, you can run the file through your favorite Markdown viewer/processor and you'll see a nicely formatted version of the whole file with comments included.

In other words, it is both valid (Literate) CoffeeScript and valid Markdown.



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