Re: Suitability of Lua as a First Programming Language?

[Florian Weimer <fw@...>]

* steve donovan:

> I like Python, and I use it because my colleagues like it, but the
> whitespace thing may confuse newbies.

That would apply to Lua, too, wouldn't it? 8-)

Surprisingly, the few people I've talked to about their learning
experience when they had barely begun, all complained about pointless
error messages about missing semicolons.