[ale] Programming and preferred languages?

[Leam Hall]

Last night's fun was mostly turning working local code into a package. 
Kludges to the left of me, relative dirs to the right, and here I am...

It was fun to face the challenge. It was less fun to again get the "you 
should upgrade" thing on IRC. Few IRC Rubyists seem to care that 
upgrades take time and planning on large server farms, and if I'm not 
giving much in value then there's no ROI on the upgrade.

http://blog.reuel.net/2016/08/using-ruby-187-for-fun-and-uh-fun.html

Sorry, having some whine with the morning coffee. What was cool was 
reading the language code to get better clues as to why my code was 
failing, fixing those issues, and then starting to fix new issues raised 
by package installation.

Part of the challenge is getting larger projects in my portfolio. Since 
my day job isn't coding I'm working after hours on things that please 
me. That pleasure, like last night, helps push past the "dang, it failed 
again".

Of course, the idea crosses the mind to put my code's data into portable 
formats like json and sqlite, and then write basic ports into different 
languages. I already have some Go code doing that.

Also, yesterday wasn't a great day. Reading your wisdom really helped me 
keep a good attitude at work. Thank you very much!