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You have a point. Python was definitely pitched as a perl replacement. We forget because it pretty much won. Lua has it's own problems, of course, but I don't
by moomin 9y ago
You have a point. Python was definitely pitched as a perl replacement. We forget because it pretty much won.
Lua has it's own problems, of course, but I don't see it as a language developed as a consequence of frustrations with another.
- kibwen 9y agoLua was developed for legal reasons: huge tariffs on foreign software meant that Brazilian companies often found it cheaper to develop custom toolchains, which is what gave us Lua.