Lua is extremely popular as an embedded script processor... For example, most of the World of Warcraft UI is scripted in Lua. -- Sent from my Palm Pre On Mar 30, 2010 13:45, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom <chrome at real-time.com> wrote: On 03/30 12:41 , Jeremy wrote: Thanks for the overview Jeremy. Rather a fun read. :) > ADA - often required for government or govt-regulated projects. It's nicely similar to Modula-2 or Pascal. Fairly easy to learn & read. One of the more miserable classes I had in college was one where an odd-smelling and barely intelligible professor spent 90% of the class scribbling Ada code on the board as fast as he (and we) could write. We were never actually required to *write* any code in Ada tho (we could do the assignments in the language of our choice - I used Modula-2). We worked hard to do all the assignments, but I don't think I actually learned anything in that class other than one sentence out of the textbook which said something to the effect of "Well-behaved programs should not 'bomb' even when given bad input". In retrospect, it was another example of the brokenness of the modern government-inspired-and-regulated education system. > sed - not a big fan On the upside, the substitution syntax is similar to Vim's and it's really handy to include in bash scripts. "j=`echo $i|sed -e s/onething/anotherthing`" is just too handy some days. (Yes, I'm sure there are neater ways to express that, but this is the one I remember). > punchcards - do *not* drop the tray just before submitting it, else your > coworkers will tell me the story 20 years later. Never used them myself; but I was told one solution for the spill problem was to take a black marker and draw a big 'X' on the side of the stack of cards. That way you just re-order them until the ink marks on the edges of each card line up and your stack is reassembled. > Up and coming languages. Allegedly good. Already attracting hipsters. > Erlang > Lua Lua looks like a really simple & easy to learn language; I just never had reason to learn it. Anyone here have much experience with it? -- Carl Soderstrom (not a coder by any stretch of the imagination) Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota tclug-list at mn-linux.org http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20100330/2547431b/attachment.htm