Re: Two types of Lua programmer, or two types of Lua code?

[Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>]

> To me, this seems like a case of unfortunate ‘marketing’ strategy from the Lua team... :(
> People (new to Lua) in search of a general purpose scripting language are driven away right at that statement (“it only works embedded...”)!  They won’t even bother to read the next few sentences...
> 
> Further down it reads: “The Lua distribution includes a sample host program called lua, which uses the Lua library to offer a complete, standalone Lua interpreter, for interactive or batch use.”

I would be great if people that use Lua read the manual with that
attention :-)

-- Roberto