I doubt Hemingway would write in anything but assembly language.<p>I hated Hemingway in high school. His book was like, "The army marched. And fought. And marched again." Or something like that. I think it was the only assigned reading in my AP English class that I didn't finish -- I just couldn't stomach it.<p>Hemingway is crap. Writing 101: A "story" is an interesting narrative. Hemingway reads more like a boring list of facts. I don't understand why he's considered a great writer. In fact, if it wasn't for the professional typesetting, correct grammar and spelling, and sheer length of his novels, I would have assumed they were the incoherent rantings of some none-too-bright anonymous commenter on the Internet :)<p>Dickens, on the other hand, is awesome.