I came across the Lua programming language and started reading the first edition of 'Programming in Lua', which is available for free online (http://www.lua.org/pil).
I am incredibly impressed by the conciseness of the language and its syntax and really like it (there are only a handful of types, the 'table' data structure can be used to easily create any complex data structure), it is fast and is designed to be called as a script from c, and c functions can be easily called from it. Intuitively it appeals to me even more than Python does.
Its adoption seems to suggest it is not widely used outside game programming? Why? What is wrong with you people? ;)
I am incredibly impressed by the conciseness of the language and its syntax and really like it (there are only a handful of types, the 'table' data structure can be used to easily create any complex data structure), it is fast and is designed to be called as a script from c, and c functions can be easily called from it. Intuitively it appeals to me even more than Python does.
Its adoption seems to suggest it is not widely used outside game programming? Why? What is wrong with you people? ;)