Re: Lua's opportunity

["Peter Sommerfeld" <peter.sommerfeld@...>]

Jimmie Houchin wrote: 
> I believe there is great potential for the future of Lua. I think Lua
> could offer an excellent alternative to Perl, Python, Ruby, etc.

I don't think Lua fits in that camp. It's range of application is
much broader, Scheme or even Erlang may be closer.

> A standardized object oriented programming model. But one 
> that does not  eliminate or reduce the available to program in 
> other paradigms.

Lua provides closures, metatables and even the colon syntax. What
else do you need ? OOP is not of  particular importance in a language 
like Lua,  I even think that the colon syntax is superfluous.

> Am I wrong? What do the long time Lua users think? What can 
> we, the Lua  community do to achieve a better future for Lua? 

I'm neither a professionell nor a long time user but I'm quite
pleased  as it is. I'm not convinced that a large and fast growing
user community is a good measure for success. 

Peter