I scripted in C for the longest time, after thousands of lines it was in muscle memory, and I could reuse boilerplate. I was profoundly embarrassed to then disc

I scripted in C for the longest time, after thousands of lines it was in muscle memory, and I could reuse boilerplate. I was profoundly embarrassed to then discover Perl; I felt late to the party, like I'd thawed out of a glacier. Then Python, which stuck. I tried various lisps, Haskell, Ruby, Lua for scripting, and kept returning to Python. I realized Python was truly boring, and I needed scripting to be fun, to keep my interest up. I relearned Ruby. Ruby is fun. http://www.randomhacks.net/2005/12/03/why-ruby-is-an-acceptable-lisp/ http://www.randomhacks.net/2005/12/03/why-ruby-is-an-accepta...