_why was not writing for an audience of people who wanted to learn a programming language to get a job to make money. There are certainly people who did get tha

_why was not writing for an audience of people who wanted to learn a programming language to get a job to make money. There are certainly people who did get that out of The (Poignant) Guide, but it wasn't the primary goal. The primary goal, as I understood it, was to share a way to find joy in a particular way that humans can interact with computers.