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   On Mon, 2 Sep 2024, candycanearter07 wrote:   
      
   > D  wrote at 09:56 this Saturday (GMT):   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> On Fri, 30 Aug 2024, Johanne Fairchild wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> 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   
   >   
      
   Interesting. Seems like every language has its quirks here and there. On   
   the other hand, since I'm not a professional, I never tend to hit the   
   really weird stuff, unless it's built in from the start.   
      
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