On Feb 12, 2006, at 16:11, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > availability of skilled programmers is absolutely critical for the use > of a language.
By that measure, we should all be using Java, no? "TIOBE Programming Community Index" http://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm > By comparison, even Forth gives 13 million plus hits, and who uses > Forth? Anyone writing in English: http://www.answers.com/forth&r=67 > Lua appears to be *too* lightweight, without even classes or > inheritance, Programming in Lua Object-Oriented Programming http://www.lua.org/pil/16.html > and a single data type where Python has dicts, sets, tuples and lists. "Lua gives you the power; you build the mechanisms." -- Roberto Ierusalimschy, "Programming in Lua", December 2003 http://www.lua.org/pil/12.1.2.html Cheers -- PA, Onnay Equitursay http://alt.textdrive.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list