Lua is terrible. Don't use it.

For those of you demanding a reason Lua is shit,
consider the following code:


local fh = io.open(filename, "r")  
while true do
    line = fh:read("*l")
    if line == nil then break end
    f(line)
end

That is a fucking eyesore. The whole point of a while loop is to embed the exit condition in it. When you have to make an infinite loop and then use an if statement with a break to accomplish what you can normally do with something like:


fh = fopen(filename, "r");  
while(fgets(line, max, fh) != NULL) {
    f(line);
}

that's when you need to stop using that language. Also why do if statements have "then"s? Any programming language that uses "then" is awful.

Hello fucking faggots, how about this?

map(f, file(filename))

-- signed - Guido van Rossum