First, let me tell two stories.The first one is one Japan soap factory had a problem that they sometimes shipped empty boxes to the customer without soap inside. So they spend much time and money to invent a X-ray machine to check whether the soap box is empty.The same thing happens in a small factory which doesn't have too much money. The solution of them to solve this problem is they use a desk fan to blow the empty boxes out of the belt and into a bin.The second story is NASA finds that in space with 0 gravity, astronauts cannot use pen to write. So they spend much money on developing a pen...

In this article, I would like to discuss why you should use Lua. Thisall started with a message that recently popped up on theLua mailing list regarding why isn't Lua more widelyused? The answerswent from randomness to lack of libraries to a variety of other things, but theone that resonated with me most was that there are fewer people who enjoy thedo it yourselfapproach, which Lua fully embraces. I've come to think of Lua as the ArchLinux of programming languages. Which, almost bydefinition, means fewer people will enjoy Lua rather than more. So then whywould you want to use Lua? In no...