Re: Suitability of Lua as a First Programming Language?

[Florian Weimer <fw@...>]

* Olivier Galibert:

> On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 01:29:54PM -0300, Eduardo Ochs wrote:
>> (*) Well, there are the standard answers for those questions, that we
>> all know... "everything is an object! A car is an object! A pizza is
>> an object! A window is an object! And every object has a class, and a
>> class is also an object"... I am still trying to understand why some
>> people seem to feel perfectly at ease with these kinds of ideas, while
>> I don't...
>
> Perhaps because these "standard answers" are high-grade bullshit?

I don't think so.  They're are appropriate for a certain type of
object model.

> A pizza, a car or a (physical) window has never been part of a
> program[1].  Equating structuration primitives with physical
> unrelated objects is not going to tell you how to use them or even
> what they're useful for in the first place.

But that's not the point of the statement, is it?  You are probably
confusing this with subtype polymorphism/inheritance, which is very
problematic to explain using examples from mathematics or biology.