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02:55 Blockhead256[m] Lua and Python are both dynamically, weakly-typed scripting languages with mostly natural language keywords. That's about where the similarity ends.
02:55 Blockhead256[m] Every time I see someone write LUA or JAVA or something I pronounce it in a soft yell voice :)
03:38 muurkha they probably think it's an acronym
03:40 muurkha Lua and Python also have string immutability, associative arrays, dynamically dispatched method calls, operator overloading, a coroutine facility, and closures which are not the same as the method dispatch
03:42 muurkha so I think they have quite a bit of similarity
03:45 muurkha contrast JS (no overloading, no coroutines), Perl (mutable strings, no coroutines), awk (no closures, no dynamic dispatch, no overloading), etc.
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03:48 muurkha also in both of them the normal type of object for user-defined data types is an associative array
03:49 muurkha which sounds totally normal now I guess because that's how Perl, JS, Lua, and Python do things
03:49 Blockhead256[m] it's all associative arrays all the time baby
03:49 muurkha but it was weird as hell when Lua and Python started doing it, and it's still far from universal
03:51 muurkha languages that take a totally different approach to that include Smalltalk, Ruby, Java, Scheme, C++, Golang, Rust,...
03:53 muurkha also incidentally when Python and Lua came out Perl was a lot more different
03:54 muurkha it wasn't until Perl5 that it adopted dynamically dispatched method calls, operator overloading, and closures (though admittdely Python didn't have standard nested-scope closures until even later)
03:55 muurkha Perl4 didn't even have references.  in Python and Lua everything is references
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12:33 BuckarooBanzai !tell awells travelnet issue is fixed with https://github.com/mt-mods/travelnet/commit/6b0bf6e7222f25ed94fee239c94882942e4eef8a feel free to open an issue next time :)
12:33 MinetestBot BuckarooBanzai: yeah, yeah
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19:09 MinetestBot Peter_Lankton: May-15 21:50 UTC <definitelya> Do you know Tales of Androgyny? Best game I swear, maybe it could "inspire" you. :|
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19:15 Peter_Lankton just wanted to see the tell command in action lol. i was logged in with different username when someone else used it to tell Peter_Lankton something.
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20:06 definitelya__ OWO
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