True! So much frustration coming back to me alongside the nostalgia. On the other hand I don't think I'd ever have actually done any scripting in those days if

True! So much frustration coming back to me alongside the nostalgia. On the other hand I don't think I'd ever have actually done any scripting in those days if I didn't have the ability to tinker about with a UI too (same applies to programming in general: it all started with drag and drop coding in Delphi for me). I can't help but see a similar pattern in my increasing use of functional languages or approaches: While I wish the world of programming was more functional, to the point where I'm willing to give up some lucrative work so I can avoid the alternatives, I also feel that when I was a beginner the OO approach was much more accessible and did a better job at 'pulling me in' as a proper programmer. If I wanted to do something, well, here's the keyword or pattern. No need to understand functions-as-variables, map/filter/etc. (let alone reduce and recursion).