From: nospam@example.net   
      
   On Sat, 31 Aug 2024, Johanne Fairchild wrote:   
      
   > D  writes:   
   >   
   > [...]   
   >   
   >>>>> Funny---I gave up on Perl as soon as I discovered the existence of AWK.   
   >>>   
   >>> Actually it was after I read ``The AWK Programming Language''.   
   >>>   
   >>>> Sometimes less is more. It's aesthetics for sure, but for me   
   >>>> personally, I do not like massive languages that try to do, and be,   
   >>>> everything. For fun I thought about to have a look at Lua, or   
   >>>> possibly, go.   
   >>>   
   >>> Lua is a nice language, but it's really small.   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> Ah! So maybe Lua would be my next hobby language to learn. =)   
   >   
   > I don't know why people enjoy such small things so much.  Sure, it feels   
   > good to master something, but it's also good to have tools that can do a   
   > lot for us.  I used to be very minimalist, but following my heart   
   > instead of my brain I found Common Lisp to be the nicest of them all.   
   > But, sure, if I'm going to embed a language in my executable, Lua is a   
   > candidate, though I'd probably go for a small Lisp.   
   >   
      
   In my case, it is because I am not working as a programmer, so I have not   
   requirements to be productive or to be able to generate any income of   
   programming.   
      
   That means, I can just have a go at what I find interesting and beautiful.   
   It also means that if I get bored, I can just stop, and have a look at any   
   other languange that catches my interest. =)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)