From: jfairchild@tudado.org   
      
   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.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)