On: What I think about Lua after shipping a project with 60k lines of code

[AlphaWeaver]

> After that, I went back to Dmitry and asked him if my understanding of “everything is a table” was correct and, if so, why Lua was designed this way. Dmitry told me that Lua was created at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro and that it was acceptable for Pontifical Catholic Universities to design programming languages this way.

[oh_nice_marmot → AlphaWeaver]

It's unclear to me what you are trying to say here.

[gary_0 → oh_nice_marmot]

It's a joke wryly comparing its uncommon origins with its uncommon design.

[m463 → gary_0]

Well, trees have roots in competing norse mythologies. And dictionaries might be seen as elitist in societies with high illiteracy rates.

[foldr → gary_0]

There's not really anything uncommon about a programming language having its origins in academia, a university being Catholic, or a university being in Brazil (which is the world's 7th most populous country). So I also don't really get this.

[adolph → gary_0]

Yep, sounded like papal bull

[endtime → gary_0]

It sounds kind of like something Scott Alexander would write.

[nmz → oh_nice_marmot]

There's no explanation.

[Tao3300 → oh_nice_marmot]

Res ipsa loquitur

[jmspring → oh_nice_marmot]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lua_(programming_language)#:....

[chipdart → oh_nice_marmot]

> It's unclear to me what you are trying to say here.

I agree, it reads as something posted by a chatbot tha glitched.