From: jfairchild@tudado.org   
      
   D  writes:   
      
   > 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.   
      
   I am not programming for profit any longer.  Thank God.  I program for   
   beauty now.  This change has been the hardest thing I had to do and it's   
   been so worth it.   
      
   > 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. =)   
      
   :-)   
      
   When I felt comfortable with C, I decided to choose a higher-level   
   language that could be my main medium of expression.  I choose Lisp.   
   It's been taking me lots and lots of years, but it's also been so worth   
   it.  I came up with the Lisp idea observing Barry Margolin here on   
   USENET many years ago.  It was his discussions on Lisp that brought the   
   language to my attention.  I had no idea it existed and I felt it was   
   really strange that inteligent people would care so much about such an   
   old thing.  Newbies.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)