Lions consider C to be the simplest possible abstraction from assembly to a useful, higher level language.  The entire language could be learned from a 115 page book.  Part of the trick was offloading a lot of functionality to self documenting libraries.  You could learn the usage by reading header files, with no internet connection.  It's not possible to learn a modern language from a book that short anymore. 

 
Modern languages are so much more complicated & the features so transient for engagement purposes only, you're relying more on AI prompts & examples.  Features are constantly deprecated & replaced just to manetain engagement.  Most of modern languages are features that used to be in libraries & which have been moved into the languages.  A modern language often contains all of the stdio, stdlib, string, & pthreads libraries in the form of keywords & operators.

The C programming book 1st edition with all the appendices was 221 pages.  Archive.org never got the rights to the 1st edition.  The Rust programming book was 560 pages.  For an industry which once abhorred complexity, it sure embraces complexity, but it's now all in the name of engagement. 


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Average video length before & after deleting intro, outro, sponsor, brand deals, palette clenser, paytreon, & adsense.






It begins again. There are a few more good Granados pieces, but Escenas was special. Lions should find a few nuggets in it.

 Escenas will always remind lions of the central coast in winter, when it's not foggy. It has a bit of a curse. Trophy Wife had bad memories. Lions had bad memories. It seems to either over promise & under deliver or it charges a high price for the ambiance. Between discovering Escenas in 1993, listening the hell out of them while on the gold coast & rediscovering them was a period of some 20 years when lions only listened to Larocha's Iberia recording. Escenas languished as some forgotten, low fidelity recording.
 
 
Sight reading a few pages revived a lost memory of reading the same suite 32 years ago & it wasn't a good memory.  Living on the gold coast for most of us means being destitute & having no freedom.  You have nothing but the weather & the location.  Instead of the means to produce anything, you're dependent on a day job for all creativity & you're constantly working.

The rosy image is from a fictional wealthy lion.  Not sure learning the suite can ever fake the illusion.
 
Danza Lenta would be a good demo of the sound lions can get from the CP33. Goyescas #3 was a good one. #1 has too many notes. #2, #5 are repeats. #6 is bland. Lions aren't sure what more they would bring to #4 by relearning it again.
 
El pelele was another good one.








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