Re: teach your Grandma prototypical inheritance? was (Uncommon OOP in Lua: right or wrong?)

[Scott Vokes <vokes.s@...>]

On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Patrick Mc(avery
<spell_gooder_now@spellingbeewinnars.org> wrote:
> I think [Lua] is a great language but the build your own
> mechanism thing only works for advanced programmers, as proved by the
> calibre of the people on this list.
   At the same time, Lua is designed to have a clean subset if you
just want to use Lua code for config files, using tables to dump raw
data, etc. It has a lot of sophisticated features, but you aren't
forced to learn them upfront (or even to know they exist). Very few
languages have pulled that off.

   I went from Python to Lua too, FWIW.

Scott