Re: I like Lua the way it is

[Rena <hyperhacker@...>]

On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 17:33, Jerome Vuarand <jerome.vuarand@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2012/3/10 Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com>:
>> I'm not picking on the above in particular.  I quote it merely as
>> one example of too many posts recently that want to change Lua.
>
> I feel that the kind of change request that you are mentionning has
> always been frequent on the mailing list. I've been on the list for
> several years now, and while this trend fluctuates, I'm not sure it's
> increasing.
>
> Actually, I think I was one of these guys at the beginning. But the
> more I learned about Lua, the less I felt the need to change it. And
> in the end, I'm like you, I like Lua the way it is. And that personnal
> evolution may give the false impression that change request increase
> while we just become less interested in them.
>

Ah yes, I forgot I wanted to say that too: the more you learn Lua and
realize its subtle genius, the less you want to change it. You realize
how your desired changes would be unnecessary or even detrimental, and
how much you can do with what little you do have. At first, to have so
little feels constraining, but as you learn it, you realize just how
much you can do with it, and you realize, you really don't need any
more...

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