Re: Scripting language takes a silicon turn

[Chris Marrin <chris@...>]

Alex Queiroz wrote:
> Hallo,
>
> On 25/01/06, mnewberry <mnewberry@mirametrics.com> wrote:
>
> > For my part, I am not asking anyone to turn Lua into C/C++. I'm suggesting
> > small changes to syntax to make it more consistent with how we already
> > think.
>
>
>      And who's we? Lua could be made easier for people coming from
> Scheme or APL as well. Or it could stand as it is and people could
> actually learn the syntax. It's not that difficult.

Percentage of people using Lua who already know C or C++: 80% maybe?

People in the entire world who use APL or Scheme, as a percentage of 
people using C or C++: 2% maybe?

Can we all at least agree that, if Lua were to have any small changes to 
make it look like any other language, C/C++ makes the most sense for 
what language it should look like? No, I don't suppose we can :-)

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