Re: Python people strive to embrace LuaJIT

[Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>]

> On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 10:11 PM, Alexander Gladysh <agladysh@gmail.com> wrote:
> > But Lua discrimination strikes again:
> >
> >    <...>Lua code is harder to write than Python code as the language
> > lacks most of the batteries that Python includes. Writing large
> > programs in Lua is rather futile<...>
> 
> Well, it's partly true: you need to find your own batteries to do
> anything the standard libraries can't. But Lua as a language is
> definitely not "harder" to write!

And writing large programs in Lua is certainly not "futile", as
proved by many large programs written in Lua.

-- Roberto