http://people.apache.org/~rbowen/presentations/apacheconEU2005/hate_apache.pdf http://people.apache.org/~rbowen/presentations/apacheconEU20... Right, and it's

http://people.apache.org/~rbowen/presentations/apacheconEU2005/hate_apache.pdf http://people.apache.org/~rbowen/presentations/apacheconEU20... Right, and it's a language with a brittle, inconsistently documented, largely ad hoc syntax. While Lua's syntax has its quirks (the syntax for lambdas is a little cumbersome, arrays are indexed from 1), that's because it is designed to be straightforward for simple use by non-programmers. The advanced features* don't get in the way if you're only using it as a log/config/etc. file format. * Tail-call optimization, closures, coroutines, etc.