I know a bit of eLisp and I quite like it. Frankly, it's not that Lisp syntax is bad (it's wonderful), but most popular languages have a C-derived syntax. For t

I know a bit of eLisp and I quite like it. Frankly, it's not that Lisp syntax is bad (it's wonderful), but most popular languages have a C-derived syntax. For teaching to non CS-types, the target is probably a C-like language and I guess Lua is closer to that than Lisp.