Re: MoonScript, a language that compiles to Lua

[Peter Hickman <peterhickman386@...>]

On 11 August 2011 14:48, Axel Kittenberger <axkibe@gmail.com> wrote:
> It can be automated by any editor to take care of whitespaces when
> copy/pasting*. So why complain about the language if your editor
> doesnt? :-)

The fact that you need a special tool just to make cut and paste work
worries me greatly.

Some of use still use

$ cat > prog.lua
...
^Z
$

to write our programs (ah kids these days, don't know they are born.
In our day we had to code our own editors - actually thats a lie, we
didn't have to we just did because it was fun)