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The funny thing now is that computers really aren't fun anymore. I think I've had it beaten out of me, I've spent too many nights and weekends chasing down stupid quirks, stuff that's not even programming, just accounting and janitorial stuff. I still read programming books in my free time, but most books just depress me. That thought occurred to me while reading one of the Agile process books, so I quit reading about process and started trying to find things that would take me back 12 years, back to when Pascal was neat, and everything seemed easy.

The prescription for that problem - avoid the manually intensive curly brace languages. Work with Smalltalk, or Lisp, or Python, or Ruby. Watch the janitorial tasks disappear and the fun come back.