Haha, reminds me of "If Hemingway Wrote JavaScript"

https://www.amazon.com/Hemingway-Wrote-JavaScript-Angus-Crol...

which is actually kind of amusing and creative.

Holy Carp and Salmon, that's great!

This Shakespeare JavaScript is fantastic and I want to write all my comments in this style: https://imgur.com/gallery/IKlBAX0

EDIT: huh, imgur removes the word "javascript" from post titles and descriptions. Weird that they couldn't find a better way to stop javascript attacks.

Not only comments. You can write your whole program in Shakespeare Programming Language:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare_Programming_Langua...

This is awesome.

I love this!!

Is this book worthwhile?

TIL: There's a "Shakespeare" esoteric programming language.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare_Programming_Langua...

It’s generated occasional commentary here, but not recently.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7639119

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4910622

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1415528

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3172021

I’d like to think HTML would have used different notation for syntax e.g. the section sign for open tags and pilcrow for closing:

    §doth whence="bæc"§ Forsooth! ¶doth¶

And written in secretary hand [1] instead of monospace.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_hand

I was going to say (as if that were the main objection) that the = there was apocryphal, but I had my centuries wrong: Recorde invented it in the mid-16th century.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equals_sign#History

I wonder when angle braces were introduced?

Actually, as an assignment operator it dates back thousands of years:

    let there = light  # fix dark issue

This table on Wikipedia says the inequality symbols were first used in 1631[1]. However guillemets (« ») date to the mid sixteenth century[2] and are still used as quotation marks in many languages. Although according to the page about brackets[3], chevrons were the earliest form of brackets, however I couldn’t find a year.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_of_mathematical_symbols_...

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillemet

3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bracket#History

Recorde is one of those intellectual heroes I only learned of a few years ago. It seems like no big deal now, but using a symbol instead of words to represent am equation was revolutionary.

> apocryphal

I think you mean anachronistic there.

Yes, thank you.

This is the best HN comment I've seen in a while, ha!

:)

brilliant!