FWIW, JavaScript runs on the mainframe in a JVM as well, which has the 
advantage of being zAAP/zIIP eligible. I've done a fair bit of that. Some of it 
to pretty good productive use.

Lua does look interesting and has the benefit of having an actual I/O library 
included. 

On Thu, 23 Oct 2014 20:00:17 +0800, David Crayford <[email protected]> wrote:

>Scripting languages are generally very easy to learn. Lua is has an
>almost identical feature set to Javascript. They both share a common
>design goal and were heavily influenced by scheme, although Lua predates
>Javascript by two years.

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