On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Paul McNett <[email protected]> wrote: > On 5/19/10 9:27 AM, Jarvis, Matthew wrote: >> Attended a meeting last night where there was a short presentation on >> Lua. Pretty interesting stuff: >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lua_%28programming_language%29 > > I've used and liked Lua over the years. I prefer Python's syntax, but Lua is > definitely more lightweight and I can see why one would choose it over Python > for > specialized scripting needs, especially where performance is favored. > > I think actually it is almost as easy to learn as Python, but may not have as > many > "batteries included".
Lua is very impressive. As a Ruby fan, I like it's syntax a lot. It's got more of a functional than an object-oriented mindset and is blazing fast. I fell in love with it though only after I discovered "meta lua" which brings Lisp-like flexibility to the language that is literally mind-blowing, once you grok it. http://metalua.luaforge.net/metalua-manual.html#htoc64 It's become my favorite scripting language after just one project. So my current arsenal of heavy coding weaponry (which I keep, as it were, well cleaned and loaded) is: General Scripting: Lua Ruby JavaScript .NET: F# (I'm actually writing a book and building training course ware about this!) Delphi Prism (I'm really impressed with this Object Pascal variant for the CLR) C# Java/JVM: Scala Clojure Native Code Compiling C++ Delphi/Free Pascal Stuff I play with or learn from and occasionally use: Erlang (I love it's "process oriented programming" ideas) Haskell (mainly to understand deep concepts of functional programming) Ocaml (mainly because it inspired F#) D (mainly because my C++ "hero" Andrei Alexandrescu switched to it) - Publius > > Paul > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
