“Clearly, since I'm a badass programmer who can't recognize my own incompetence, I chose to do incremental parsing. I mentioned this plan a few months ago to Brendan Eich, who said: "Let me know how the incremental parsing goes." Brendan is an amazingly polite guy, so at the time I didn't realize this was a code-phrase for: "Let me know when you give up on it, loser."”