People who are doing things for fun do things the right way by themselves.
I'm generally a very pragmatic person: that which works, works.
Talk is cheap. Show me the code.
My name is Linus, and I am your God.
C++ is in that inconvenient spot where it doesn't help make things simple enough to be truly usable for prototyping or simple GUI programming, and yet isn't the lean system programming language that C is that actively encourages you to use simple and direct constructs.
I'm basically a very lazy person who likes to get credit for things other people actually do.