Re: need help: some features of Lua don't fit well together

[Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@...>]

2015-04-16 12:47 GMT+02:00 Nagaev Boris <bnagaev@gmail.com>:

> Someone said "JavaScript is the language of browser and everybody
> has a browser, so JavaScript is the only language which everybody can
> interpret, that is why it beats Lua, Ruby, Python and other scripting
> languages". I don't know how to challenge the argument.

You could point out its isomorphism to "English is the language of
movies and everybody watches movies, so English is the only
language which everybody can understand, that is why it beats
German, French, Italian and other languages." A similar argument
did not save Latin from being barbarized.