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Lorenzo Donati wrote:
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This would smooth considerably their learning curve. I think that for a newbia is more frustrating to have the usual (on this mailing list) reply "but you can do that with these two lines of Lua code..." followed by some idiom that leaves one puzzled for a while (see tricks with 'gsub ' or 'match') (please don't beat me with a stick, I actually got to love some of these tricks _now_ ;-) :-) )

And as for the names: virgin, holes, etc., well the adjective 'inappropriate' is an euphemism.

I know several female colleagues of mine who would rightfully beat with a stick whoever forced them to use such idioms, even in a programming environment.

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Lorenzo