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Subject: Re: Languages... From: David Welton <davidw@master.debian.org> Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 14:57:49 -0600 On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 12:24:53PM -0800, J C Lawrence wrote: > Lua -- http://csg.uwaterloo.ca/~lhf/lua/home.html That URL didn't work for me, try this: http://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/lua/ I had the impression that Lua, along with Ruby, and Elastic (www.elasticworld.org) was sort of a 'next generation' scripting language (if Perl, Tcl and Python constitute the current generation), that try to make up for some of the "deficiencies" in the older languages, like the lack of real garbage collection. Has anyone else had experience with these? They seem nice - they are meant for the 'real world', and improve on what's already out there, but are they that much better that it's worth the time to "upgrade" ? ===