Certainly, but you don't have to go as far back as that for an example: just compare the drive letters in Windows to the lack of them in Unix. It works very we

Certainly, but you don't have to go as far back as that for an example: just compare the drive letters in Windows to the lack of them in Unix. It works very well in Lua's favour to stick to just the C library given the desire to use it in embedded computers. However, it's valid to wonder why a basic feature supported by 99% of computers is not available out of the box; you judge things based on what's available now, not the past. I should think the C library would be quite different had it been designed 20 years later.