Lua

[Abhinav Singh]

this is tutorial to the language lua

very good indeed and the language is pretty easy .

http://www.lua.org/pil/contents.html

P.S : there is no need of main function :)

[Tavish Naruka]

Also see http://eluabrain.blogspot.ro/2011/11/brainz-brainz-braaaaaaaaainz.html http://www.eluaproject.net/

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[Supreet Sethi]

I commend the effort in posting informative tutorial. However, merit of a programming language goes beyond following certain idiom like use of *main*. Some languages are domain specific like php for web, some more general purpose. Additionally it matters more what you can achieve with a with the code rather than what you code in.
Having said that, in many languages including perl, python, ruby, main is not a necessity.

As far as experimenting goes, I would highly recommend readers to start with python because of highly understandable nature of code and  immensely helpful documentation.

[Vaidik Kapoor]

+1 to Supreet sir's point.

The idea is not to learn a language which does not have, for example, "main".

Generally, for me, the motivations to learn a new language are:

1. How easy is the language to quickly hack something?
2. How readable is  it?
3. What all can I achieve/do with it?
4. An overall idea about technicalities like performance. For example, many would compare Ruby vs. Python for their speed. However, IMHO I believe it doesn't really matter in most of the cases when you just want to get things done. When you work on those cases where you do need to drill down, you would know that you do need to drill that down.

As far as I know about Lua, it is a really really fast interpreted language and is used in a lot of projects - Redis, Nginx, etc. Its still young but as I hear and read, the community is growing. 

If you are interested in Python, there are multiple good resources to get started with. For example, https://python-guide.readthedocs.org/en/latest/.

Best regards,
Vaidik Kapoor
www.vaidikkapoor.info

[Supreet Sethi]

+1 vaidik
Adding a bit more, I would look at best high level abstraction as single most important criteria. In lay terms, less the number of lines to write, less to debug.