Having done a lot of both, Lua feels more pythonic than rubyish in many small ways. Objects are just syntactic sugar where self is the first arg (though unlike

Having done a lot of both, Lua feels more pythonic than rubyish in many small ways. Objects are just syntactic sugar where self is the first arg (though unlike python, lua has the syntactic sugar to make it prettier to look at), etc. Interestingly, typical OO Lua is prototype based, not class based -- in that way it is more javascriptish. Most lua codebases I have seen tend to be written in what I call an "imperative functional" style, where the language isn't purely functional, but functions are the most common means of abstraction. It has proper anonymous functions, lexical scoping, etc so you can write very rubyish code (such as moonunit http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/trunk/modules/lua/test/moonunit.lua http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/trunk/modules/lu... and using it http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/trunk/modules/lua/test/test.lua http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/trunk/modules/lu... ).