Re: Lua libraries

[David Jeske <jeske@...>]

On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 12:24:01PM +0100, Markus Huber wrote:
> > David Jeske wrote:
> 
> > In reading this thread, it seems to me like some people are talking
> > about "lua libraries and modules" in the interest of making Lua more
> > useful as a general purpose scripting language like Python and Perl.
> 
> I was in hope that Lua is an alternative to (cryptical, hard to read)
> Perl and (stupid indent based) Python. After one year programming in php
> (old bugs, new version with new bugs, incorrect manual, stupid
> functions, old code is incompatible to newer versions, ...) I am
> searching for an alternative with all the stuff needed for html
> based internet applications.

Really, try Python, after using it you will probably love the
indention like everyone else.

If you really can't bring yourself to, then try Ruby. It's simple and
clean and not intent based.

Lets please not start another project which needlessly reinvents the
wheel. Lua is a great embedded language, lets keep it that way.

-- 
David Jeske (N9LCA) + http://www.chat.net/~jeske/ + jeske@chat.net