The Languages
The stars of this show are the seven programming languages. Each of them has a role to play in exercising the poltergeists that haunt our current dusty mental motels. We’d like to offer a warm thanks to the creators of those languages, and also to the angels who helped accelerate our transition from novices to, well, slightly more knowledgeable novices.
Lua
We’d like to thank Roberto Ierusalimschy for recognizing the importance of a single, unifying abstraction. Lua’s tables are versatile enough to build object systems, custom data structures, and even video game levels. The clean implementation underneath makes it a breeze to run Lua anywhere, to embed it into your own projects, and to extend it in new ways.
Special thanks to Matthew ...
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