--- In Firebird-Architect@yahoogroups.com, Jim Starkey <jstarkey@...>
wrote:

>
> woodsmailbox wrote:
> >> Can you give an example in a database context where Lua is more
> >> expression than JavaScript?
> >>
> >
> > I'll try to make-up some real-life examples on a next post.
> >
> >
> Uh, it's been a while. How are the real-life examples coming?
>

Sorry, I shutdown that thread from my mind, it seemed to me you had
strong opinions about this. And then there's this phrase of yours:

"I care a great deal less about extensibility than I do about actual
built-in features."

that made me realize our frames of reference on how we evaluate
languages are too different, so now I don't know what kind of example
I could come up with that would be meaningful to you, since, like that
exception thing, they are exploiting this same quality of
extensibility. For instance, it won't be meaningful to show you how
easily you can do any flavor of OOP in lua because it's not "built-
in", so java would win for you anyhow.