Re: From Lua to Python?

[Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@...>]

2017-07-13 0:22 GMT+02:00 Dibyendu Majumdar <mobile@majumdar.org.uk>:
> On 11 July 2017 at 20:46, Dibyendu Majumdar <mobile@majumdar.org.uk> wrote:
>> On 1 July 2017 at 00:09, Dibyendu Majumdar <mobile@majumdar.org.uk> wrote:
>>> I am thinking about moving to Python in my project where I am
>>> currently using Lua as the scripting language. My reason is a
>>> pragmatic one - Python is becoming popular in the Financial sector,
>>> and is the language most people my project targets will be familiar
>>> with. Additionally some of the tools I use - such as Google's GRPC and
>>> Protocol Buffers - all support Python.
>>>
>>
>> Strange though it may sound, I had never bothered to learn Python
>> until now. Still early days but so far my thoughts are that maybe both
>> Lua and Python have a place in my project. Maybe Lua is the better
>> embedded language, but Python is the more versatile scripting
>> language. Too early to tell though.
>>
>
> I am reading the Python language reference and am completely
> overwhelmed by the complexity - not of the language per se which seems
> slightly more complex than Lua - but the meta mechanisms which are too
> numerous for me to try and remember them all. Makes me appreciate
> Lua's comparative simplicity - there is only one meta mechanism to
> understand in Lua - the metatable.

I've been reading this thread telling myself firmly that I will not
give any opinion whatsoever, and I won't violate that resolution.

However, history is not an opinion. I learnt Python in the mid-2000s,
opened a little trapdoor marked "From Python to Lua" in November
2010, decided to go into that loft just to look around, and after a month
discovered that the trapdoor would not open from the other side.

-- Dirk