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Am I alone in finding this ridiculously pretentious? I got as far as the mocking olde-worlde "shakespeare" comments before giving up.

Javascript is not a better language than others (in fact it's a far worse language), and it's downright insulting to put words in the mouth of someone like Hemingway to try and make yourself feel better.




This is fun. Remember fun?


"I had fun once, it was horrible."


I thought fun wasn't allowed on HN


Fun that requires some effort is fine. Mindlessly copying the meme of the week is not.

See: IOCCC, Esoteric Languages, etc.


PROGRAMMING IS NOT FUN


>Am I alone in finding this ridiculously pretentious?

No, but you must be among the few not getting the joke or not being stuck-up to see that IT IS a joke post.

I mean, "it's downright insulting to put words in the mouth of someone like Hemingway to try and make yourself feel better."

Really?

>Javascript is not a better language than others (in fact it's a far worse language)

Even if that was true (which is highly debatable, because a language is not just it's syntax, or even it's semantics), it doesn't have anything to do with the post (besides it being about Javascript).


Even if you see that it is a joke you can find it a bad, pretentious joke.




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