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> After that, I went back to Dmitry and asked him if my understanding of “everything is a table” was correct and, if so, why Lua was designed this way. Dmitry t
by AlphaWeaver 2y ago
> After that, I went back to Dmitry and asked him if my understanding of “everything is a table” was correct and, if so, why Lua was designed this way. Dmitry told me that Lua was created at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro and that it was acceptable for Pontifical Catholic Universities to design programming languages this way.
- oh_nice_marmot 2y agoIt's unclear to me what you are trying to say here.
- nmz 2y agoThere's no explanation.
- jmspring 2y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lua_(programming_language)#:~:text=Lua%20was%20created%20in%201993,Rio%20de%20Janeiro%2C%20in%20Brazil https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lua_(programming_language)#:....
- gary_0 2y agoIt's a joke wryly comparing its uncommon origins with its uncommon design.
- adolph 2y agoYep, sounded like papal bull
- m463 2y agoWell, trees have roots in competing norse mythologies. And dictionaries might be seen as elitist in societies with high illiteracy rates.
- endtime 2y agoIt sounds kind of like something Scott Alexander would write.
- foldr 2y agoThere's not really anything uncommon about a programming language having its origins in academia, a university being Catholic, or a university being in Brazil (which is the world's 7th most populous country). So I also don't really get this.
- chipdart 2y ago> It's unclear to me what you are trying to say here. I agree, it reads as something posted by a chatbot tha glitched.
- Tao3300 2y agoRes ipsa loquitur