Programming is fun again!
When the Web first appeared, I had my first "Programming is fun again!" experience. I had gotten my bearings in programming in Unix and C, and when I was informed that it was possible to include an image in a web page, I anticipated the amount of work that it would take in a C-like environment from scratch to tell how to display an image. I implicitly thought, "Too much work for me." But I was positively astonished to find that an image could be included in a web page with nothing more than <IMG SRC=Portrait.GIF>, and that an image itself didn't need to be embedded in a web page; it could equally gracefully be made available as <A HREF=Portrait.GIF>Click here!</A>. Thus began my first exposure to a language that was declarative ...
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