C + Lua == 21st Century "C Programming" There is no silver bullet for everything, obviously, but for me the above combination is a match made in heaven. Lua is

C + Lua == 21st Century "C Programming" There is no silver bullet for everything, obviously, but for me the above combination is a match made in heaven. Lua is small and adds only the necessary tools to take care of higher abstrations in many different paradigms. Even if these two are different languages, they are amazingly complementary. I feel that a good introductory CS course could simply teach in one semester C and the next Lua. By the end of the year students will be able to tackle a huge amount of problems, as well as learned a useful systems and scripting language.