Book review in JavaScript

Robin Sloan wrote a book review in JavaScript. You can watch the video above but the point is to enter the code you see into the JavaScript console on Robin's site. And if you can't be bothered but are dying of curiosity, this is the book he reviewed. Appropriate, right?

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xzzy

It would have been cooler if he had the user actually type some flow control stuff, instead of merely having the visitor call methods that dump out canned text.

Would have allowed a visitor to experiment with basic programming concepts and see what happens.. which a great way to engage people. Give ‘em access to some variables to mess around with and the whole thing turns into a toy.
CH

That’s not… um… argh… aaaaaa… A method call okayWhatKindOfBookThen()??? I have a feeling that would get a few comments in code review.

As a programmer, who loves to do UI:s… no… don’t. That’s just making it inconvenient for the user, especially as it just pushes out static text. Heck, even putting the review as an XML or JSON file side by side with a nice interface to pull data from it would have been nicer.
Adam Barrowman

Pro tip: If you want to see his review right-click then “view page source”, don’t waste your time righting out his awful code.
SamSam

Bah, you’re all haters. I thought it was pretty cute, especially from someone who apparently just learned to program.