The most interesting part for me was the information about lua.

This looks like it could be a VERY useful "tiny" language to put inside applications.

That's one role that perl has pretty well "outgrown" for me. Perl's great, but "tiny" it ain't. :)
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Mike
Edit: Hmmm, perlmonks dyslexia, I had my [link] backwads... Thanks, Aristotle.