Re: Lua on Reddit again

[Peter Cawley <lua@...>]

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Steve Litt <slitt@troubleshooters.com> wrote:
> Speaking about what might replace it -- could something with callback
> functions replace it? They're powerful as all getout, but until now appeared
> to be the sole territory of toolmakers, with application programmers simply
> writing and passing small callbacks. Could that be because in other languages,
> callbacks are just too syntactically difficult?
node.js has had a lot of publicity recently, and its modus operandi is
to have callbacks everywhere as to avoid blocking.