Re: Suitability of Lua as a First Programming Language?

[pan shizhu <pan.shizhu@...>]

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 9:42 PM, steve donovan
<steve.j.donovan@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 3:34 PM, pan shizhu <pan.shizhu@gmail.com> wrote:
>> IMO python is by far the better language for "first programming
>> language" than Lua.
>
> That may be true, but why? Is it because it has more 'out of the box'?
>
Yes, python has much more 'out of the box', and has more standard
modules (pygtk, pyqt, socket, d-bus, etc.)

Python standard libraries are very well documented.

In fact, I use lua more than python, but I think python is a better
language for "first programming language" because a new programmer
should form a good programming habit: correct indent, correct
identifier name.