Re: Is Lua the next big thing?

["David Burgess" <dburgess@...>]

You forgot:

e) Needs more memory to start than is available
f) 623Kg of irrelevant documentation
g) requires 2-3 years of expensive training programs to be
an "accredited" Lua user/programmer
h) each new version must be half the speed of the previous version
i) the install must be large enough to fill at least one DVD

A codeword for  the next release also helps. Maybe something like
"Hereford" or "Trumpeter".

db


On 3/9/07, Kein-Hong Man <keinhong@gmail.com> wrote:
> Philippe Lhoste wrote:
> > Mark Hamburg wrote:
> >> http://rc3.org/2007/03/is_lua_the_next.php
> >
> > Seen in the comments of the above post:
> > ZHlog - Lua - the silent new web 2.0 player?
> > <http://d.hatena.ne.jp/zhesto/20060328/1143530796>
> >
> > "For me Lua seems pretty much ready for web 2.0 applications development"
>
> Nah, Lua is missing a few more things:
> (a) a P.T. Barnum showman (a focal-point "evangelist" personality)
> (b) a sizable gaggle of loud (and I mean *loud*) cheerleaders (to
> push Lua as the next big thing since "sliced bread")
> (c) a Rolodex full of contact to media and major blogs, for the
> use of (a) and (b)
> (d) a collection of terminology that can be made "fashionable",
> e.g. XP (Extreme Programming), Agile Programming
>
> etc. :-)
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Kein-Hong Man (esq.)
> Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia