If Hemingway wrote JavaScript The following article was written by my good friend and colleague, [Angus Croll](//twitter.com/angustweets). Angus works on the web core team at twitter, talks at conferences around the world, and runs an amazing [blog](//javascriptweblog.wordpress.com) on javascript. Beyond this, he’s also a huge book nerd, so I thought it would be fun to get him to write about code from that perspective. The New Book “If Hemingway wrote JavaScript” is out in September 2014. I loved literature long before I ever wrote a line of code. What is it about JavaScript that attracts so many literature devotees? The Mother of all Code Reviews Recently I had a dream in which I asked Hemingway and four other literary luminaries to write some JavaScript for me; specifically a function that returned a fibonacci series of a given length. Ernest Hemingway No surprises here. Hemingway didn’t suffer fools gladly so if you ask for a series with less than two numbers he’ll just ignore you. William Shakespeare Andre Breton
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