Re: S.W.O.T analysis

[Gé Weijers <ge@...>]

On Oct 19, 2011, at 5:56, "Patrick Mc(avery"
<patrick@spellingbeewinnars.org> wrote:

>
> Okay let me rephrase, it this way, if we could trade weak tables and closures for a simple python/import mechanism then I think that would be better for the language. I think it needs to stay small to stay away from the bigger language's market but not so much that it is hard for a non-programmer to use and that non-programmer friendly features should trump advanced FP features.

Without closures Lua degenerates into another clumsy language. There's
plenty of those, laguages with lots of ad-hoc features and little
expressive power. Python actually implements a simple form of
closures. Java and C++ are getting there too.

Gé