Re: From Lua to Python?

[Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@...>]

2017-07-13 22:25 GMT+02:00 Dibyendu Majumdar <mobile@majumdar.org.uk>:
> On 13 July 2017 at 18:19, Sean Conner <sean@conman.org> wrote:
>> It was thus said that the Great Dibyendu Majumdar once stated:
>>>
>>> There have been several threads here on how to grow Lua. It would be
>>> interesting to understand the driving factors behind Python's
>>> popularity and maybe some of that can be adopted in Lua. I don't
>>> really know but it seems to me:
>>
>>   To me, it's obvious---Python is an opinionated program.
>
> I see Lua as equally opinionated if not more.

In either language, the bottom line is that the language is the
way it is. Python has exactly one feature that I really miss in
Lua, which is the built-in help including the docstring. That's
why I made a effort to supply it with `ihelp.`[1]

-- Dirk

[1] luarocks install ihelp