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.

>>26
b = map(lambda x:f(x)+1, a)[code]
vs
[code]b = [f(x)+1 for x in a]

The only reason why the latter is shorter is because there's no shorthand for writing anonymous functions, such as -> x {f(x)+1}, or even ->{f(\x)+1}. But noooo, that's not going to happen, since Fucktard von Ransom thinks lambda is evil. Too much syntactic sugar makes your teeth rot. Ever thought about that?