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

["Joseph Manning" <manning@...>]

On Wed, March 6, 2013 21:56, Coda Highland wrote:

>> 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.

Adam,

   Ah, good point indeed -- I was thinking only with my theory hat on.

Joseph

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