Re: BASIC-like Lua variant

Subject: Re: BASIC-like Lua variant
From: Peter Hickman &lt;peterhickman386@ ... &gt;
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 09:20:55 +0000

On 15 January 2014 19:10, Fabien <[email protected]> wrote:

On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 7:45 PM, Marc Balmer <[email protected]> wrote:

Am 14.01.2014 12:26, schrieb [email protected]:

Is there some Lua variant or module that lets the programmer use a more
BASIC-like syntax? Would this be even possible?
no.

To elaborate a bit on Marc's true but terse answer: it would be possible to make some tweaks to Lua's syntax, which would make it look more similar to BASIC. But it would hurt BASIC people, not help them.

To extend on this. There was a movement a long time ago (disclaimer - I am old) to give C a Pascal like syntax. The purpose was to make it easier for university graduates that had been taught Pascal as part of their degree adapt to a programming language that employers actually wanted. All it resulted in was Pascal programmers programming C as if it was Pascal and failing to utilise the power of C.

It was a bad idea then. It is still a bad idea.