lua programming language

lua is yet another kind of beautiful and clean script language. i’m using it now.. ^_^ it was 18th in tiobe index. and was 54th. very impressive jump, isn’t it? i haven’t noticed that there’s another useful script language in the world. but there is! i may expect better and better languages to come!

lua is some what looks like vbscipt, but far better in performance and many other case. most impressive feature in lua is its tiny set of reserved words. very few to remember well and not to confuse enough, only a minimal set is available. and the language itself is somewhat verbose but supports many features for everyday work. yeah, that’s the key point of lua. it does something perl did in more elegant way!

although it can be run in stand-alone mode, it can be very easily intregrated into many kind of host programs. you may not have a chance to meet this language today, but you’ll get a chance to meet this small friend, sooner or later.

somet points you must remember at first in lua are, comment starts –, not // or #, and table index stars from 1 not 0, not equal is ~=, not !=. it maybe look so strange, but it will works for non-programmers, i think..