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

[José Passes <jose.passes@...>]

On 03/06/2013 09:56 PM, 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.

I'm sure that if you put enough money on the line, someone will be keen 
to prove you wrong.  Turing-complete is all it is actually required, the 
rest is just implementation details, and the amount of legwork it would 
take to prove a point.