[Tutor] Python vs. Lua

[Alan Gauld]

> Are there any reasons why Python is better and I
> shouldn't use Lua instead? I think I might be missing
> some major flaw in the language.

All languages are good for something - otherwise they 
wouldn't have been written! Learning Lua as well as 
Python is almost certainly a good thing to do. You 
might even learn some new tricks with Python by doing so.

As to whether you should learn Lua *instead* of Python, 
thats a different story. Python does several things 
better than Lua - including having built in support 
for multiple programming paradigms, and having 
batteries included. Its also more widely used so you 
have a higher chance of coming across Python elsewhere.

But any "Turing complete" programming language can 
be used to solve any computing problem as well as 
any other language. The differences are in ease of 
doing so, performance of the final result etc.

There is no universally perfect language

Alan G.