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

[Steve Litt <slitt@...>]

On Thu, 7 Mar 2013 10:14:05 -0300
Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@inf.puc-rio.br> wrote:

> > Long story short, my point is not to be a pedant, but to COMBAT
> > pedantry -- the Turing tarpit is a dangerous trap laid by pedants.
> 
> Well said.
> 
> -- Roberto
> 

Speaking of tarpits, what the heck does "semantic" mean? I see the word
used 100 different ways on various programming websites and mailing
lists, and few if any correspond to the dictionary definition. For
those reasons, I personally don't use the word.

Thanks,

SteveT

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