Re: Slashdot article: "Searching for the Best Scripting Language"

[Eric Tetz <erictetz@...>]

--- Andre Costa wrote:
> The criteria used are very subjective and most likely not
> entirely relevant to most of the people here.

No kidding. It's like asking, "what the best vehicle?" The question
is meaningless by itself. It needs to be, "what is the best vehicle
for purpose X?"

Lua beats Perl up and down the block when you need an *embedded*
scripting language, one that is easy to extend, one that is time
*and* space efficient, one that is particularly good at data
description and easy to read/learn by novice programmers. Perl is
none of these things.


	
		
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