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Lua is used often for scripting and modding games. I doubt most mod creators have a background in mathematics, especially considering I started when I was ~13 years old.

On Tue, Jul 4, 2017, 12:03 Sean Conner <sean@conman.org> wrote:
It was thus said that the Great Viacheslav Usov once stated:
>
> It is the other way around. Most people doing programming in any language
> have at least some background in mathematics and usually in other
> programming languages, and are familiar with functional syntax and the
> characteristic "reversal". It is the proposed syntax that is unfamiliar and
> confusing. This is best illustrated by this very thread.

  That's surprising to me.  At work, I've had to explain closures and
functional programming.  I haven't even mentioned currying yet.

  And I work with programmers who have 30+ years of experience.

  -spc (Math, I might grant you ... )


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