Re: Justify introducing Lua at my workplace? (on topic)

[Tim Hunter <TimHunter@...>]

Duck wrote:
> > I have an opportunity to introduce Lua in my workplace.
> > My goal is to replace an existing scripting language.
> > The existing language is proprietary, was developed
> > in-house, has limited functionality, is hard to maintain
> > and extend, and is only maintained by its inventor.
>
> > [But as the boss] says, the existing language is working
> > (for now) and we have several developers who are trained
> > to use it. These developers would have to learn Lua.
>
> Since Lua is so small and easy to embed, you could even start by simply 
> treating Lua as _an extension language for your scripting language_.

This is a remarkably insightful and useful answer. Thank you!