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2016-01-08 3:57 GMT+02:00 Jonathan Goble <jcgoble3@gmail.com>:

> Eventually I want to create my own programming language from
> scratch for fun, probably implemented in Lua or Python (given my
> limited C experience), and gaining a greater understanding of the
> Lua internals through tweaking and reading code will aid me
> in that goal.

Just switch goal and method: creating one's own programming language
from scratch and implementing it in Lua (where the C API also counts as
Lua, after all it occupies over 30% of the manual) is a good way to gain
a greater understanding of the Lua internals.