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You last sentence is a bit far-fetched.



The referred sentence is a matter of opinion, so it's a bit far-fetched to say it's a bit far-fetched, IMO. From what I know of Lua, it's fairly tiny, and it has ready access to its own meta-level -- to the point where there can be a blurring of programming and meta-programming. Instead of everything "being an Object," everything is in a table. Just rename "table" to "object" and call it a prototypical day.


No it's not, jokes aside, implicitly comparing Javascript to Lisp from the point of view of elegance is simply incorrect, for many definitions of "elegance".


And for how many definitions of "comparable?" Lose a point for careless reading.


It is an elegant weapon, for a more civilized age


If you want to shoot your own foot sure!




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