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

[Steve Litt <slitt@...>]

On Thu, 07 Mar 2013 13:22:39 +0900
Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> wrote:

> Alex Queiroz <asandroq@gmail.com> writes:
> > So maybe a better phrasing would be: Lua is small, embeddable, fast,
> > and it's actually a pleasure to write Lua code.
> 
> _easily_ embeddable -- Lua's C interface is really good, and really
> simple, and there's very little "grot" involved.
> 
> Plus one of my favorite Lua attributes: the source code is small,
> simple, and stable enough that you can just include the entire Lua
> distribution in your application's source tree without feeling
> dirty...
> 
> -miles

I really like the table-centricity.

SteveT

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