Re: Standard Lua Library

[Chris <coderight@...>]

On 1/12/07, David Given <dg@cowlark.com> wrote:
> I find it rather amusing that practically every shiny new language feature
> that are in fashion today were, in fact, done 27 years ago by Smalltalk-80.
> People don't learn from history...

Tell that to the Lisp people who were doing it way before Smalltalk-80.  ;)

Just like most things in life it's extremely rare to discover
brand-new never-been-seen-before ideas.  Artwork, music, software,
etc. for the most part it's all rehashing old ideas.  Plus you can't
expect everyone to know everything about everything, that's
impossible.

Success depends on the specific arrangement of ideas (eg. _how_ you do
something) more than having a completely original idea.  The devil is
in the details as they say.

CR