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From: Johanne Fairchild <jfairchild@tudado.org>
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Subject: Re: AWK As A Major Systems Programming Language
Date: Sun, 01 Sep 2024 22:52:10 -0300
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D <nospam@example.net> writes:

> On Sat, 31 Aug 2024, Johanne Fairchild wrote:
>
>> D <nospam@example.net> 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.