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Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2015 13:47:43 -0500
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On 02/05/2015 01:25 PM, Bob Paddock wrote:
>>   Lua is primarily (and almost exclusively) used in games and toys.
> 
> Which is a unfortunate common view.  It is a useful language and easy
> to embedded in an application and not hard to learn.

  Yes, the same can be said for Scheme.  They are both good languages
that suffer from image problems, mostly of their own making, and to
which their user bases are mostly oblivious.

> I have used it in the coal mining machines I designed in a past life.
> 
> Users could enter their own calibration equations, like it was a
> calculator, for doing sensors calibrations.
> Many mines removed the factory supplied sensors, for reasons I never
> understood, and replaced with their own.
> So each sensor needed its own scaling that a user could enter and save.

  Neat!

              -Dave

-- 
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ/3
New Kensington, PA