Scripting Laungages

[Falco Girgis]

You guys need to understand what a scripting language is good for before you learn one. 90% of your projects probably don't need one at all.

Lua is made to be embeddable. That's it's thang. It's fast, lightweight, and easily integrated with C/++ to further extend the application.

Python, Perl, and that group is general purpose scripting languages. They are made to be standalone and are generally pretty resource hungry. They are more powerful than something like Lua, but that's because they are used for pretty much anything, while Lua is made to be embeddable.