JavaScript is Literature is JavaScript
summary
Talk claims JavaScript can faithfully reproduce authorial voice by rewriting algorithms as prose and code and it actually ships runnable snippets: Fibonacci and factorial implementations rendered as Hemingway spare loops, Shakespearean-act comments, Breton nouns, Bolaño confessions and Dickensian heuristics. Tools include plain JavaScript and a CoffeeScript cameo; one factorial uses a Stirling/Gamma approximation to accept nonintegers, another reverses factorials from cached cases, and a Kerouac piece only works for n=43. The demos compile and mostly run as playful, verifiable experiments.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:04JavaScript literature concept
- 2:29Fibonacci solutions review
- 7:03Surrealist vs naive Fibonacci
- 10:13Dickens on Fibonacci
- 11:38Factorial solutions review
- 16:15Feynman on Factorial
- 17:17Doyle's backward-solving
- 19:46Johnson's CoffeeScript
- 21:32Austen's cleverness
- 23:40Hemingway's recursion
- 24:01Closing
