syntax difference

[Dan Stromberg]

On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 10:08 PM, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 1:46 PM, Dan Stromberg <drsalists at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Great languages are small but extensible, easy to read, and don't require
> > learning a lot before you can get started writing code or reading someone
> > else's code.
> >
> > Great languages: C and Scheme.  And Python.
> >
> > But isn't Lua smaller than Python?  That thought worries me a little.
>
> It's a lot smaller. And that worries me ONLY to the extent that I
> might, at some point, have to write something in Lua. I would much
> rather use a richer language than a poorer one, any day.
>
Some size is useful.  A lot of "richness" leads you to Perl.

You
> learn new language constructs and they are completely orthogonal; you
> use those constructs and they interact infinitely.
>
Agreed.