Re: Thought experiment: what would you remove from Lua

[Albert Chan <albertmcchan@...>]

Earlier in this thread, Y combinator were introduced (a week ago ?)

I was confused.  
Why would we complicate a recursive function like that ?

Then, I found this: http://dreamsongs.com/Files/WhyOfY.pdf

From the same site, this might apply to Lua, the language
There is no need to create the perfect language ...

http://dreamsongs.com/WorseIsBetter.html