Re:British exam board removes C and PHP from Comp-Sci A-Levels
by xenthral on Thursday May 13, 2010 @09:26AM
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"Python falls in the middle of C and Lisp and thus is a useful comparison (and everyday-living) language."
Its a shame Lua isn't more widely used / known that would be an even better fit.
Because its far more of a middle ground between those 2 than Python in my opinion, it gives you very little that you can do a lot with - for instance compare the singular Lua table with the wide choice of data structures Python offers.
Theres a great paper by Robert Ierusalimschy that goes through the multi-paradigm / extensibility that Lua offers:
Its a shame Lua isn't more widely used / known that would be an even better fit. Because its far more of a middle ground between those 2 than Python in my opinion, it gives you very little that you can do a lot with - for instance compare the singular Lua table with the wide choice of data structures Python offers.
Theres a great paper by Robert Ierusalimschy that goes through the multi-paradigm / extensibility that Lua offers:
http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/docs/ry09-03.pdf