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

[Coda Highland <chighland@...>]

On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 1:49 PM, Joseph Manning <manning@cs.ucc.ie> wrote:
> On Wed, March 6, 2013 10:22, 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?".
>
> Theoretically, Lua can of course do absolutely nothing that any other
> Turing-complete language can do.

This is a common fallacy. Being Turing-complete only determines what
algorithms you can compute, but there's a lot more to programming than
just algorithms. INTERCAL is Turing-complete, but it can't open any
windows on your screen; Conway's Game of Life is Turing-complete, but
you can't use it as an embedded script interpreter.

/s/ Adam