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This may sound odd to some but I like very much things in the 1% I think trying to please 99% is very hard and when it comes to software that means lots of compromises and a bloated API and code base.
Granted I am no LUA expert have only read a book from Wrox. I have to say I love it :) and plan on using it.
It is small enough to really master all things should one invest the time to do so and it feels a really sweet niche with its interplay with C and C++ code. Giving one easy extensibility for things written in those language ... that's a lot of things.
I guess the reason I say I like the 1% is because it does not involve trying to accommodate everyone's wish list and a huge luggage of backward compatibility that keeps you constraint to an implementation, I like things small like the Twisted book (python twisted), but then again I like Erlang and it is not the most popular either if you go to one of the language polls.
C also does not score very high, in the compiled crowd, but heck almost everything is written with it or ends up running a piece of code in it at one point or another to get things done. Don't know enough assembly for a "hello world" even, but I bet that is getting good use too... ;) ... still.
I put in my vote even though I have to say I like many of the other scripting languages too, a slightly bigger 1% is better :D. 

Best to everyone and thank you for the language.
Cheers,
george

On 08/07/2012 09:17 AM, jyf wrote:

Most script guys learnt lots of scripting lang, so i am not suprising
this results

for me, i use Python prime at work, but sometimes lua for embeding things,
like in redis2.6, or nginx with lua supporting module

but when learning the language, i think the book "Programming in Lua"
helps me so much to know the magic or tricks underground, while other
programming lang's tutorial or book dont. they just told the rule, while
the lua book told the meta rule , and shows how to use these meta rule
to generate your rules.

(Maybe its just that lua has so less concept to tech, so the author
needs to get some padding things, :] , joking)

BTW, if the author could add some vm internal things in the book, will
helps more


On Tue, Aug 07, 2012 at 03:39:01AM +0100, joao lobato wrote:

http://slashdot.org/poll/2417/most-useful-scripting-language-to-learn

Shame about the "LUA" business, though. I expected more from /.