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

[Hisham <h@...>]

On 16 April 2015 at 08:20, John Hind <john.hind@zen.co.uk> wrote:
> "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."
>
> - Dirk Laurie
>
> Is English the language of movies? Better would be "English is the language
> of
> Science (or Aviation, or Business), and since we have to learn it for those
> purposes, we may as well make it the language of 'X' as well". So pretty
> much
> every programmer has to learn Javascript at some point for browser
> programming

Nothing against learning Javascript or English, but that shouldn't by
definition preclude learning other languages. :)

A good argument to use in defense of that is the classic "right tool
for the job" one.

> (and there is a good argument that all UI programming should be browser
> programming).

Fortunately, at least 99% of all mobile devices disagree with this argument. :)

-- Hisham