On Mon, 13 Dec 2010, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >> Have a look at Lua (www.lua.org). Imo it's quite readable and less > <snip> > Don't. I have literally never heard of it before, and I at least have > heard of everything else folks have mentioned. Learn something that > there's a *large* base of folks who know enough to help you. you know -- that is a comment of an ignorant, really a sn*tty, negative nabob of negativism, on this, to no good end -- learning algorithmically sound design in a literate programming language is probably the best thing a newbie starting out could so Like, I've learned, created, and forgotten many languages over a lifetime, and as Lamar points out, some still persist -- I too have clients regularly using Fortran, and they want to pay for support Lua was proposed into rpm as a way to get control of %pre and %post Turing unbounded-ness; is actively in daily use on FreeSwitch as a ESL; and has regularly appeared in small and embedded space, as it is a quite good fit there It has a active community, and both free and 'pay for it' documentation, and is surprisingly easy to ]pick up' as a new language One could do ** much worse ** than Lua (the rantings of the MSFT fanboi here for the patent encumbered kit, not shipped on CentOS, such as C# come to mind) -- Russ herrold