Re: Lua in comp.lang.forth

[Ralph Hempel <rhempel@...>]

Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo wrote:
> John Passaniti, a lua-l old-timer, has posted this to comp.lang.forth:
>
>  "The Lua community shows brilliantly how people can work together while
>  still maintaining their diverse opinions on what objects are and how
>  they should work."
>  http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.forth/msg/cd2b8540531fe947
>
> I think this both summarizes the excellent level of discussion here in
> lua-l and supports our early decision of providing mechanisms, not policy,
> in Lua.

I'm an old-time Forther, and was eventually driven away by the high
level of personal attacks and off-topic clutter in that group.

In my own opinion, the original beauty and clarity of Forth was ruined
when the small group controlling the language was made into a committee
that ended up throwing their personal wishes into the mix.

Lua has a very small core of language architects that appear to think
long and had before adding features or "enhancements" to the basic
language. It would be a shame if that ever changed.

This group is remarkably cooperative and full of useful information.

And as I've said before, Lua fills the niche between Forth and Lisp
quite nicely for me :-)

Cheers, Ralph