If Hemingway Wrote JavaScript

What if William Shakespeare were asked to generate the Fibonacci series or Jane Austen had to write a factorial program? In If Hemingway Wrote JavaScript, author Angus Croll imagines short JavaScript programs as written by famous wordsmiths. The result is a peculiar and charming combination of prose, poetry, and programming.

The best authors are those who obsess about language—and the same goes for JavaScript developers. To master either craft, you must experiment with language to develop your own style, your own idioms, and your own expressions. To that end, If Hemingway Wrote JavaScript playfully bridges the worlds of programming and literature for the literary geek in all of us.

Featuring original artwork by Miran Lipova?a.Introduction
Fibonacci
1 Ernest Hemingway
2 William Shakespeare
3 Andre Breton
4 Roberto Bolano
5 Dan Brown
Factorial
6 Jack Kerouac
7 Jane Austen
8 Samuel Johnson
9 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
10 James Joyce
Happy Numbers
11 J.D. Salinger
12 Tupac Shakur
13 Virginia Woolf
14 Geoffrey Chaucer
15 Vladimir Nabokov
Prime Numbers
16 Jorge Luis Borges
17 Lewis Carroll
18 Douglas Adams
19 Charles Dickens
20 David Foster Wallace
Say It
21 Sylvia Plath
22 Italo Calvino
23 J.K. Rowling
24 Arundhati Roy
25 Franz Kafka
Poetic Interludes
1 Edgar Allan Poe
2 William Shakespeare
3 Dylan Thomas
4 Walt Whitman"A charming and diverting series of short and familiar coding exercises told in the style of a myriad of classic and contemporary writers. Lots of fun and technically challenging at the same time."
—Benedetti TechAngus Croll is obsessed with JavaScript and literature in equal measure. He works on Twitter's UI framework team where he co-authored the Flight framework. He writes the influential Javascript, Javascript (http://javascriptweblog.wordpress.com/) blog and speaks at conferences worldwide.