Re: Why Lua is not more popular

[Philippe Lhoste <PhiLho@...>]

On 13/09/2013 17:52, Roberto Ierusalimschy wrote:
> > Well, I'm really not sure how you measure "popular". Lua is an embedded language and
> > thus often is not "visible" even when critical to a project. For example, Lua is used
> > in the UI of all Amazon Kindles .. does anyone know that?
>
> I did not!

I was surprised to see that some models of Texas-Instruments graphing calculators not only 
have TI-Basic, but also have Lua.
Alas, for budget reason, we bought to my daughter the cheapest model, with only 
TI-Basic... :-/

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