Lua Doesn't Suck – Strange Loop 2010 20-minute talk video

Re:Lua Doesn't Suck – Strange Loop 2010 20-minute talk video by __david__ on Sunday October 17, 2010 @06:52AM (#1800084)

That is entirely possible. I can tell if someone doesn't know perl or python because they write for loops like a C coder instead of looping over containers. So I can believe that you don't come in contact with that detail very often.

It just bugs me that such an obvious wart exists in an otherwise very clean language.

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Re:Lua Doesn't Suck – Strange Loop 2010 20-minute talk video by silentbicycle on Sunday October 17, 2010 @10:15AM (#1800360)

The reason the arrays index from 1 is that Lua is designed to pare down to a data description & configuration language for non-programmers, and they felt that starting arrays from zero would be confusing. I don't like it it either, but in practice it's a minor issue.

People who write off Lua because of indexing from 1, Python because of the significant whitespace, Lisp for its pares, etc. probably haven't gotten to the really interesting stuff yet.

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Re:Lua Doesn't Suck – Strange Loop 2010 20-minute talk video by stcredzero on Sunday October 17, 2010 @09:19AM (#1800236)

Where "obvious" = something only someone with a foreign viewpoint thinks about.

("foreign" with regards to programming language.)

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