[lmm]

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.

[PuerkitoBio]

This is fun. Remember fun?

[engtech]

"I had fun once, it was horrible."

[lmm]

I thought fun wasn't allowed on HN

[waterlesscloud]

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

See: IOCCC, Esoteric Languages, etc.

[ritchiea]

PROGRAMMING IS NOT FUN

[dmorgan]

>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).

[andreasvc]

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