Re: Justify introducing Lua at my workplace?

[Don Hopkins <dhopkins@...>]

> (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Larry_Wall, look for "Lisp has all the 
visual appeal of oatmeal with fingernail clippings mixed in")

Larry Wall's argument about Lisp looking ugly don't hold any water, 
since he designed Perl, which is far uglier and more punctuated than 
Lisp -- so there must be some other reason he hates Lisp. Larry Wall has 
deeply seated evangelical religious beliefs, and has publicly stated 
that he believes that mankind is morally bankrupt. Most 
institutionalized religions are deeply homophobic, and actively 
encourage hatred and persecution of gays. So that supports my theory.

http://www.wall.org/~larry/keynote/keynote.html

"Theological Beliefs: Now let me take off that anthropological hat and 
put on a couple of others, so we can see an example of how this context 
thing works. Suppose I put on my theological hat, or more specifically, 
my evangelical Christian hat. I can tell you that I believe in God. I 
believe mankind is morally bankrupt, and I believe that God sent his one 
and only Son to earth so that we would not have to continue living in 
moral bankruptcy. I believe that the life, death, and resurrection of 
Jesus Christ define the center of history. I believe that God created 
the universe, and that God will choose when and how the universe will 
end. A little less cosmically, I believe in helping people, and I 
believe in supporting my local church. I believe that God can certainly 
do miracles if he jolly well pleases, and that one of the things he 
jolly well pleases is that somehow or other I will live forever."

   -Don