Re: Suitability of Lua as a First Programming Language?

["M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>]

On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 9:30 AM, Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>

: FORTH ZEN DUP ;


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