Palindrome Checking with Lua

tonyshowoff

@scottalanmiller suggested, nay demanded, a new tradition be started of writing palindrome checkers in various languages, here's the thread:

http://mangolassi.it/topic/3833/palindrome-checking-with-php

Here is Lua:

io.write("Your palindrome is: ")
pal=io.read()
if pal == string.reverse(pal) then
	print("It's good.");
else
	print("Fail");
end

scottalanmiller

Nice, thanks.

tonyshowoff

@scottalanmiller Are we a Lua fan or was that some sort of erotic thing I inadvertently took part in?

scottalanmiller

Never worked with Lua, wanted to see it in action

JaredBusch

Lua is a nice language to work in.

I use it with the EverQuest emulator project I sometimes participate in developing for.

One of the main devs on the project implemented Lua a couple years ago and I like it a LOT better than the way Perl was implemented for the project.

tonyshowoff

@JaredBusch It reminds me a lot of Java meets BASIC, with a dash of Pascal. It's not a bad language, but I prefer C-style languages, my brain just works better with them. Lua is a decent language though.

JaredBusch

Here is an example from the EQEmu project quest files

https://code.google.com/p/projecteqquests/source/browse/trunk/quests/potimeb/zone_status.lua?spec=svn1701&r=1701

scottalanmiller

@tonyshowoff said:

@JaredBusch It reminds me a lot of Java meets BASIC, with a dash of Pascal. It's not a bad language, but I prefer C-style languages, my brain just works better with them. Lua is a decent language though.

I'm the same way, C-style works with my brain.