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.

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It returns a ``map object'', which isn't a proper replacement for a lazy list, if that was the intention, as you can't even get an element from that crap without using a for-loop. Which is probably the whole principle of the thing, making GvR feel like he is sticking it those treacherous functional programmers who tricked him into putting lambda in his language.