From: candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid   
      
   D  wrote at 09:56 this Saturday (GMT):   
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   >   
   > On Fri, 30 Aug 2024, Johanne Fairchild wrote:   
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   >> D  writes:   
   >>   
   >>> On Tue, 27 Aug 2024, Johanne Fairchild wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> Lawrence D'Oliveiro  writes:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> On Sun, 18 Aug 2024 00:28:21 -0000 (UTC), Ben Collver wrote:   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>> He described what awk did well, as well as what it didn't, and presented   
   >>>>>> a list of things that awk would need to acquire in order to take the   
   >>>>>> position of a reasonable alternative to C for systems programming tasks   
   >>>>>> on Unix systems.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> It was soon obsoleted by Perl, which did everything Awk did, just as   
   >>>>> concisely, and more besides.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> 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 learned some lua to make aseprite scripts, it is pretty neat but it is   
   a bit frustrating to learn (like how specifically instance functions   
   MUST be called with :, while static functions are called with .)   
      
   On the other hand, aseprite lua has actually worked consistently unlike   
   krita's python   
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