Re: AWK As A Major Systems Programming Language

D <nospam@example.net> writes:

On Sat, 31 Aug 2024, Johanne Fairchild wrote:
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D <nospam@example.net> writes:
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Funny---I gave up on Perl as soon as I discovered the existence of AWK.

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Actually it was after I read ``The AWK Programming Language''.
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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.

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Lua is a nice language, but it's really small.
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Ah! So maybe Lua would be my next hobby language to learn. =)

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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.
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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.