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On 24/06/2011 19.08, David Kastrup wrote:

"Joseph Manning"<manning@cs.ucc.ie>  writes:


On 2011-Jun-24 (Fri) at 12:29 (+0100), Joseph Manning wrote:


Naw, there's a much simpler explanation -- the original poster
just had an unfortunate Lua Uppercase Accident :-)


Umm ... it's probably rude to reply to myself, but maybe

    Lua Uppercase Acronym

is a better, self-referential expansion of "LUA"


I consider it worse since it misses out on the message "I am wrong", the
actually innovative part.


I agree!
Moreover, its seriousness could even convince someone that Lua is actually to be spelled LUA (urgh! cough! cough! :-D).
You know, from the time of FORTRAN and BASIC, acronyms are like spells: yell it aloud (or litter your monthly report for the management with them) and all your problems magically go away :-)))