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davidw on Oct 1, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: Native UIKit iPhone Apps Written In Lua

> Yeah, but that's not very interesting, so I don't include it :)

Stuff like PHP indicates that plenty of people are quite happy to do quick one off's. Or Tcl/Tk for Unix, or VB for Windows. Scripting is a very sensible idea, and phones are quite capable of handling it these days.

I think it's extremely interesting creating something that opens up development to more people.

tumult on Oct 1, 2009 [–]

The ends and the means are not necessarily the same thing!

I would rather teach a new programmer Scheme, Python, Ruby etc than PHP, VB, etc.

davidw on Oct 1, 2009 | [–]

Sure, those languages are better, but the point is making programming more accessible to more people (something Python has done quite well too, indeed).

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