Re: Suitability of Lua as a First Programming Language?

[Stephen Kellett <lua@...>]

John Hind wrote:
> Argg! I am not normally a language bigot, but if there is one programming
> language that ought to be banned it is Forth. It would certainly be a
>   
Likewise, I was quite surprised at the interest in Factor, which is a 
Forth inspired language.

I do wonder if some of the more recent scripting/on-the-fly languages of 
the last few years, I've wondered if they get their following as some 
sort of "look at me, I'm using the latest shiny language" rather than 
the language is any good in the first place. Forth was abandoned because 
it was too hard to use. Why go back there? I'm sure a die-hard 
calculator user will be able to tell me :-)