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

[Thomas Jericke <tjericke@...>]

On 04/16/2015 12:58 PM, Dirk Laurie wrote:
> 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.
You are hopefully aware that movies are actually translated into German, 
Italian and French.
Most people watch them in their own native language. Coming back to the 
computer
languages that happens as well, just in the other direction. Every 
language seems to be
translated into JavaScript these days.
--
Thomas