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How can anyone not be able to install Lua on Windows? I mean, Linux would be one thing, but Windows? All you need to download is one package and unzip it somewhere...

David Kastrup wrote:
Thomas Lauer <thomas.lauer@virgin.net> writes:

Either one is elitist, which as a policy decision is fair enough, or
one tries to have a broad appeal. Having it both ways is difficult.

Lua does not have a broad appeal.  It appeals to programmers.  The
question is whether it is also targeted as a first programming language.
If yes, then installation needs to be reasonably easy to do without
already being in the "programmer mindframe".  If no, then, well, shrug.