Re: Learning Javascript from Lua?

["Dimiter \"malkia\" Stanev" <malkia@...>]

> This might be a controversial statement, but I recently also reflected
> for me. Todays Javascript - Lua relationship reminds me a lot of the
> 1990ies C - Pascal relationship. The Pascal/Lua actually the more
> sane, the nicer looking, better developed language with faster parser,
> but restricted to a dedicated community. C/Javascript having the mass
> power and big industries behind it.

I miss Pascal too. My coding language up to 2000. Started C 1993.

What I miss from Pascal, implementation wise - Turbo/Borland/Inprise is 
the Unit systems - binary compiled units that a compiler can load and 
get definitions automatically. No need for header files and such.

Also the "with" statement, somewhat the custom arrays range, and few 
other things.

But nowadays when I see Pascal code it seems to verbose to me (longer 
keywords, etc.) - but I often remind myself - code is there to be read 
much more times than written.