clipka wrote:
> As a matter of fact, if Lua was a good deal closer to C, I might already be
> jumping up shouting "that's our language!"

Well, there's good news:

"Lua is implemented as a library, written in C. Being an extension 
language, Lua has no notion of a ``main'' program: it only works 
embedded in a host client, called the embedding program. This host 
program can invoke functions to execute a piece of code in Lua, can 
write and read Lua variables, and can register C functions to be called 
by Lua code. Through the use of C functions, Lua can be augmented to 
cope with a wide range of different domains, thus creating customized 
programming languages sharing a syntactical framework."

The compiled bytecode is also indistinguishable from C.

-Mike

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