Re: "Programming in Lua" in Portuguese

[Andrew Starks <andrew.starks@...>]

On Friday, June 26, 2015, Luciano Ramalho <luciano@ramalho.org> wrote:
> Congratulations, Roberto!
>
> Having the book in Portuguese should raise the visibility of Lua in
> Brazil, where most computer science professors and professional
> programmers aren't aware that Brazilians created such an elegant and
> practical language.
>
> BTW, your interview with Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo in Masterminds of
> Programming [1] is one of the best in the book.
>
> [1] http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596515171.do
>
> [ ]s
> Luciano
>
> On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 9:29 AM, Roberto Ierusalimschy
> <roberto@inf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
> > Finally we've got a Portuguese edition for "Programming in Lua"
> > ("Programando em Lua"), by publisher LTC. A search for its ISBN
> > (9788521626992) lists some Brazilian bookstores where you can
> > find the book.
> >
> > -- Roberto
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Luciano Ramalho
> |  Author of Fluent Python (O'Reilly, 2015)
> |     http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920032519.do
> |  Professor em: http://python.pro.br
> |  Twitter: @ramalhoorg

I agree. I enjoyed that interview as well, especially the bug fixing annecdote at the end. It was especially... Humanizing. 

Anyway, I was at a training session in Canada and had a chance to meet a developer that was from a city that is just outside of San Paulo. I asked him about Lua and he knew of it, but my impression was that he held it in no special regard. 

That is a compliment. Lua is a useful tool and it isn't special that it was born in Brazil. To think otherwise is not really productive and somewhat arragant of me. So, it's a reminder and a parable. Great work comes from anywhere. It's true of countries and people.

-Andrew