Re: Requesting Suggestions for intermediate/advanced book on Lua

[steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@...>]

On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 9:36 PM, Jay Glascoe <jay.glascoe@gmail.com> wrote:
> Here's the other problem: so far with the numeric analysis and
> metaprogramming I'm completely alienating everyone I've asked for review.

Great initiative!  We often first arrive at our destination the hard
way; the second time is usually easier. To the point that now
grandmothers can climb Everest - that is, a good guide and basic
fitness can get an ordinary person to the peak of something that was
proverbial for its inaccessibility.

Treating Lua as a simple tool command language is not a bad start,
really. The basics are very accessible, although the 'good guide' must
step carefully over topics involving tables with holes, etc.

One problem for people who are already comfortable with language X is
that they are annoyed that Lua does not do things like X - whether it
be zero-addressed arrays, no formal class support, etc.

 I think you should go in assuming that people have access to the
basic support libraries like luafilesystem and luasocket (a good
modern distro like LuaDist 'batteries' is recommended)

steve d.