Same person. If you know it why are you asking the question ?
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Anonymous2007-04-08 22:53 ID:PZrwV3fh
Small, quite fast, quite powerful. And then there's LuaJIT to speed things up a bit more. What's not to like?
The only real drawback I've had so far with Lua is a lack of regex. Of course the reason it lacks regex is pretty funny: Unlike several other scripting languages, Lua does not use POSIX regular expressions (regexp) for pattern matching. The main reason for this is size: A typical implementation of POSIX regexp takes more than 4,000 lines of code. This is bigger than all Lua standard libraries together.
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Anonymous2007-04-09 11:42 ID:N5dfhQsa
Ugh. I can't stand Lua. The syntax reminds me of BASIC. Horror of horrors.
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Anonymous2007-04-09 15:24 ID:6xGabbAU
>>1
I'd avoid calling languages "scripting language", because it's ambiguous and leads to confusion.
>>3 >>3 just hates Python because he's a weeaboo and likes Ruby. For a weeaboo and other kinds of fanboys, liking Ruby means hating Python.
>>11
I dont like Ruby, but its certainly not as bad as Python which is absolute shit, one word... forced indentation of the code, thread over.!
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Anonymous2007-04-11 9:32 ID:TZwgiduc
>>14
I'm not one to ever argue that any scripting language is good (strict complied FTW) but if you don't like python because you have to indent your code....
Wow, just plain wow.
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Anonymous2007-04-11 9:42 ID:7dvDtQEM
>>15
One word. Not being aware of /prog/ memes. Thread over.
ALSO ABOUT LUA:
ONE WORD FORCED OBJECT ORIENTATION VIA TABLES THRAED OVER!
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Anonymous2007-04-11 11:20 ID:UNdHDAwF
>>19
That's pretty far from `forced'. You have to jump through a dozen flaming hoops to do actual OO in Lua.
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Anonymous2007-04-11 12:48 ID:oCnWGGs1
Who can even hate on Ruby. It's only downside is that it's slow. Otherwise it's very powerful. Soon as 2.0 comes out and it gets bytecode action, Earth is over. Especially Java.
I have messed with Python, it's not bad. Ruby is similar. Overall I'd prefer Ruby, but Python is good too.
I like Lua's open-endedness but I have yet to fuck with that shit. There's too many programming languages in the world.
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Anonymous2007-04-11 12:58 ID:UNdHDAwF
>>21
I used ruby actively for about three years before it became hueg. It's overall pretty nice apart from being really, really fucking glacially slow. Language-wise its main problem is that it is too close to perl. There's always more than a hundred ways to do it.
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Anonymous2007-04-11 13:06 ID:TZwgiduc
I thought this was the /prog/ board, not the /scriptkiddy/ board
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