Lua is extremely popular as an embedded script processor... For example, most of the World of Warcraft UI is scripted in Lua.<br><br><span style="font-family:Prelude, Verdana, san-serif;"><br><br></span><span id="signature"><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;color: #999999;">-- Sent from my Palm Pre</div><br></span><span style="color:navy; font-family:Prelude, Verdana, san-serif; "><hr align="left" style="width:75%">On Mar 30, 2010 13:45, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom <chrome@real-time.com> wrote: <br><br>On 03/30 12:41 , Jeremy wrote:
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<br>Thanks for the overview Jeremy. Rather a fun read. :)
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<br>> ADA - often required for government or govt-regulated projects.
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<br>It's nicely similar to Modula-2 or Pascal. Fairly easy to learn & read.
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<br>One of the more miserable classes I had in college was one where an
<br>odd-smelling and barely intelligible professor spent 90% of the class
<br>scribbling Ada code on the board as fast as he (and we) could write. We were
<br>never actually required to *write* any code in Ada tho (we could do the
<br>assignments in the language of our choice - I used Modula-2). We worked hard
<br>to do all the assignments, but I don't think I actually learned anything in
<br>that class other than one sentence out of the textbook which said something
<br>to the effect of "Well-behaved programs should not 'bomb' even when given
<br>bad input".
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<br>In retrospect, it was another example of the brokenness of the modern
<br>government-inspired-and-regulated education system.
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<br>> sed - not a big fan
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<br>On the upside, the substitution syntax is similar to Vim's and it's really
<br>handy to include in bash scripts.
<br>"j=`echo $i|sed -e s/onething/anotherthing`"
<br>is just too handy some days. (Yes, I'm sure there are neater ways to express
<br>that, but this is the one I remember).
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<br>> punchcards - do *not* drop the tray just before submitting it, else your
<br>> coworkers will tell me the story 20 years later.
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<br>Never used them myself; but I was told one solution for the spill problem
<br>was to take a black marker and draw a big 'X' on the side of the stack of
<br>cards. That way you just re-order them until the ink marks on the edges of
<br>each card line up and your stack is reassembled.
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<br>> Up and coming languages. Allegedly good. Already attracting hipsters.
<br>> Erlang
<br>> Lua
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<br>Lua looks like a really simple & easy to learn language; I just never had
<br>reason to learn it. Anyone here have much experience with it?
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<br>--
<br>Carl Soderstrom (not a coder by any stretch of the imagination)
<br>Systems Administrator
<br>Real-Time Enterprises
<br>www.real-time.com
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