Re: Suitability of Lua as a First Programming Language?

[Miles Bader <miles@...>]

David Given <dg@cowlark.com> writes:
> I think I can summarise by saying that Python's killer feature is that
> it provides the sugar to make common tasks convenient.

No, python's killer feature is that everybody else uses python (and they
all use it because ... everybody else does).

As a language it's not the worst, but it's pretty meh.

-Miles

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