From: darren kirby <bulliver@...>
Date: 2007-07-19T02:11:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Taking the bull by its horns [was background]

quoth the Robert Dober:

> Personally I am surprised to be the only having used Ada and I am even
> more surprised that Lua missed out at all (I was hoping to see Io and
> Self too).
> I am sure there is some folks having experience with these :)

Well, I for one taught myself Lua. Couple things about it: 1. It is very fast. 
In some trivial tests I have done it runs with roughly 50% the speed of C, 
which means it edges out Perl as fastest "interpreted" language in my books. 
And 2. It uses 'silly' 1 based arrays (tables). See the other thread about 
that ;)

I have also written a couple of trivial programs in Io. See [0] for one. It 
seems quite an interesting language, but I cannot get past the 
poor/incomplete documentation to write anything more complex...

Keep in mind I am strictly a hobbiest, and have not programmed in _any_ 
language professionally.

For the record:

m 30 yo
Know well: (ba)sh, PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby, Scheme, Lua
Know enough to get by: C/C++, Java, MIPS asm 
Have played with: Io, Ada, Haskell, Erlang, OCaml
Work: Currently unemployed
Location: Currently incarcerated in Edmonton Alberta  
 
No, I'm not in jail, But I am here against my will ;)

> Cheers
> Robert

-d

[0] http://badcomputer.org/unix/code/eratos/io1.bot
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