On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 1:46 PM, Dan Stromberg <drsali...@gmail.com> wrote: > Great languages are small but extensible, easy to read, and don't require > learning a lot before you can get started writing code or reading someone > else's code. > > Great languages: C and Scheme. And Python. > > But isn't Lua smaller than Python? That thought worries me a little.
It's a lot smaller. And that worries me ONLY to the extent that I might, at some point, have to write something in Lua. I would much rather use a richer language than a poorer one, any day. A well-designed language has linear complexity, quadratic power. You learn new language constructs and they are completely orthogonal; you use those constructs and they interact infinitely. Python isn't quite 100% there (there are some odd edge cases), but it's close. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
