Re: Suitability of Lua as a First Programming Language?

[Stephen Kellett <lua@...>]

Florian Weimer wrote:
> Surprisingly, the few people I've talked to about their learning
> experience when they had barely begun, all complained about pointless
> error messages about missing semicolons.
>   
I noticed that one of the reasons that came up a lot on the Ruby groups 
for folks liking Ruby was not having to type semi-colons.
I thought that a weird and rather weak reason for liking Ruby, given 
what you can do with it, but whatever, its what folks were saying a few 
years ago.

Stephen
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