this year a particular language surprised me: Lua. i'm not a polymath of programming languages, but in my experience Lua is the most powerful non-lisp languag

this year a particular language surprised me: Lua. i'm not a polymath of programming languages, but in my experience Lua is the most powerful non-lisp language (in terms of abstractive power). it's scripted, functional, dynamically typed, supports closures, asymmetric coroutines, has a heterogeneous data structure, and gives you access to the 'compiler'. it's something like a heavily improved and simplified javascript