Hello, Making an assertion of intent like this:
On Fri, 23 Oct 2009, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: > Obviously I don't want to get into an argument. ... is incompatible with *strong* assertions like this: > All scripting languages...by that I mean *all* scripting languages > allow dynamic typing and weak typing. > > This is a key point that everyone has to understand. What do you mean by a scripting language? Is C a scripting language? You may be aware of CSL <http://csl.sf.net/>? The key point to understand is that _everyone_ has their own language biases^Wpreferences. Since your intent is to educate us about Lua (or other languages) it is probably most practical to: a. Give some examples of how useful programs are written in Lua (you have already done this ... so thanks!). b. Provided "counter"-examples of how such programs are written in other languages which illustrate differences from the Lua way of encoding the algorithm. Let us worry about terminology and epithets afterwards. Kapil. -- _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
