> Lua is used often for scripting and modding games. I doubt most mod creators have a background in mathematics, especially considering I started when I was ~13 years old.
I started at about the same age, eons ago, with BASIC, then progressing to Pascal and C pretty rapidly. I could easily be mistaken now, but I do not think I had any problems with chained function calls. That did not seem to be a problem for the other young programmers I knew (the usual problem is not chained calls, but recursive calls; another unrelated common problem is pointers in linked structures).
Was it a problem for you?
Oh, and since I mentioned recursive calls, try expressing that with the arrow syntax :)
