RE: Python and Lua

[Renato Cerqueira <rcerq@...>]

At 11:17 20/04/00 -0300, Martin Dvorak wrote:
> The only objections against Lua were small things like
> uneasy
> implementation of OOP, absence of interger numeric type or problem with
> global variables
> being the default - that is things rising from the fact that Lua language
> was designed
> to be simple configuration language. If we've not needed great control over
> the
> interpreter and the speed of it, Python would be the best choice because the
> design
> of this language perfectly suits our needs, it's very clean and synoptic,
> and it is
> much faster to develop larger program in Python than in Lua.
> So, in my opinion, it is no doubt that Python is better language than Lua.

Hi Martin,

From this point of view, Java is a "better language" than Lua and Python.
Just to emphasize some previous messages,
each of those languages is a "better language" for some specific job,
and they are designed with different goals.

I think the following paper could give a good insight into this subject:
  author = "John Ousterhout",
  title = "Scripting: Higher Level Programming for the 21st Century",
  journal = "IEEE Computer",
  year = "1998",
  month = mar,
  volume = "31",
  number = "3",
  pages = "23-30"

BTW, what do you suggest instead of "global variables being the default"?
I think Roberto gave a good explanation about this topic some months ago
in the mailing list:
http://www.egroups.com/message/lua-l/961

Regards,
Renato