Re: What Lua can do that other programming languages can't do?

[Andrew Starks <andrew.starks@...>]

Perfectly said. I repeat (something like this) almost every day.



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On Mar 6, 2013, at 4:44, Ico <lua@zevv.nl> wrote:

> * On Wed Mar 06 11:22:26 +0100 2013, Muqtheear S wrote:
>
>> Hi I am new to Lua Scripting, Can some body say me "What Lua can do that
>> other programming languages can't do?".
>
> The functionality of the language itself is by no means unique, it
> shares features with a lot of other programming languages.
>
> The outstanding feature that does make Lua stand out is the lack of any
> dependencies from the underlying platform except an ANSI C compiler.
> This allows Lua to run on almost any imaginable platform, which is not
> something you'll find in any other modern dynamic language.
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