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Comment by Shish2k | Hacker News Reader

Can we just accept that javascript is as practically turing complete as any other language and move on with our lives? :P

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Turing completeness has little to do with it. JS was always Turing complete, yet these little exercises were not possible 5 years ago.

Not desirable either. Not sure they are desirable now either.

ars gratia artis

These little exercises that "were not possible 5 years ago" were released... about 5 years ago.

Not before coding EVERYTHING in 30 lines of JS or less!

Someone needs to write a js interpreter in 30 lines of js and then maybe we can draw a line under all this.

>eval(x);

Did I win?

    var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
    xhr.onreadystatechange = function () {
      if (xhr.readyState == 4) {
        eval(xhr.responseText)
      }
    }
    xhr.open("GET", "http://mywebsite.com/everything_doer.js", true);
    xhr.send();

Surely you must know that the only acceptable equality checker in JS is "==="?

"==" is for wimps :-)

maybe he was being forward looking. version 2 needs some sort of bug fix and feature list.

I keep hoping...

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