Re: Reasons for a Web Developer to use Lua?

[Gavin Wraith <gavin@...>]

In message <20110315193008.GB1903@johnsons-web.com> you wrote:

> These days I
> do primarily web development using python.

> I would welcome sincere comments on whether lua might be useful for
> me.

I would not dream of calling myself a Web Developer, but over the years
I have created and maintained various websites. I always use Lua for
this. The reason lies in Lua's origins as a data-description language.
I keep the content-database for a site as textfiles containing, in Lua
format, lists of labelled records. The visual furniture of the site
is kept quite separately in libraries of Lua functions and CSS.
I find the Lua format for labelled records easier on the eye and less
verbose than xml.

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