The Lua language was originally a data templateing language [0], and is still very good for that, but like all such things, it grew. Contrary to Greenspun's Ten

The Lua language was originally a data templateing language [0], and is still very good for that, but like all such things, it grew. Contrary to Greenspun's Tenth Rule [1], Lua's implementation of Lisp is not at all ad-hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, or slow. [0] https://www.lua.org/history.html https://www.lua.org/history.html [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule