Re: Suitability of Lua as a First Programming Language?

[Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@...>]

2012/12/1 Just4n <n0m4d@gmx.us>:

> As a fairly new programmer myself,

I'm making allowances for that, but a little diffidence would
not be inappropriate in that case.

> And if you don't at least understand this then you obviously
> don't know anything about python...

Many, if not most, of the programmers on this list learnt
Python before they learnt Lua. And wrote thousands of
lines of code in it. And had the web page listing the hundred
or so most common libraries open all the time.

> The Zen of Python
(all nineteen lines of it)

The Zen of Lua is:

   Less is more.

Let's talk again when you understand those three words.