If Shakespeare Wrote JavaScript

Twitter developer and bookworm Angus Coll decided to combine his two favourite things and induce some giggles. He then wrote a bunch of JavaScript while channeling some of history’s greatest writers: Ernest Hemingway, Andre Breton, Roberto Bolano, and yes, William Shakespeare.

Here’s how Shakespeare would have done it:

function theSeriesOfFIBONACCI(theSize) {

//a CALCKULATION in two acts.

//employ’ng the humourous logick of JAVA-SCRIPTE

//Dramatis Personae

var theResult; //an ARRAY to contain THE NUMBERS

var theCounter; //a NUMBER, serv’nt to the FOR LOOP

//ACT I: in which a ZERO is added for INITIATION

//[ENTER: theResult]

//Upon the noble list bestow a zero

var theResult = [0];

//ACT II: a LOOP in which the final TWO NUMBERS are QUEREED and SUMM’D

//[ENTER: theCounter]

//Commence at one and venture o’er the numbers

for (theCounter = 1; theCounter < theSize; theCounter++) {

//By divination set adjoining members

theResult[theCounter] = (theResult[theCounter-1]||1) + theResult[Math.max(0, theCounter-2)];

}

//’Tis done, and here’s the answer.

return theResult;

//[Exuent]

}

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