Re: BASIC-like Lua variant

[David Olofson <david@...>]

I concur; just forget about BASIC instead! Any modern, dynamic
language is so much nicer when used properly - and Lua is a small and
relatively easy one to learn at that.

That said, I've been coding in asm, BASIC, Pascal, C, C++ and whatnot
for 30 years. Not sure if that means I should know, or that I haven't
got the faintest idea about the original poster's perspective! ;-)

On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 12:47 PM, Volodymyr Bezobiuk <dedoogun@gmail.com> wrote:
> I can teach you to learn Lua if you background is BASIC in three-steps
> simple algorithm
>
> 1) forget BASIC
> 2) if you still know BASIC goto 1
> 3) learn Lua by fresh mind :)
>
> Jokes are so jokes but BASIC was my first programming language 22 years
> ago... and i should say, if you will write in Lua with that BASIC's
> paradigms and style you will lose at least a half of language power (i'd
> say, more than half, but well, let the O(power_loss) be 0.5)
>  The other side is that BASICs are usually very powered-up by graphics and
> audio and other stuff you may want. No bother with any 3rd party libraries
> and so on. If you need some environment to write games in Lua like one could
> write in BASIC two decades back - look at the Love 2D framework. Though, i'd
> recommend to just learn Lua leaving BASIC influence aside. And then try
> Love.
>
> Sincerely,
>   Volodymyr.
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 1:26 PM, <colinz@gmx.com> wrote:
>>
>> Is there some Lua variant or module that lets the programmer use a more
>> BASIC-like syntax? Would this be even possible?
>>
>>
>> Are there Lua learning resources / tools specifically for programmers who
>> have a BASIC background?
>>
>
>



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