Useful languages on UNIX that are not C - was Re: C trivia - was Re: Dennis Ritchie has died

It was thus said that the Great vintagecoder at aol.com once stated: There's always LuaJIT. It's a separate project from Lua, but follows the current Lua implementation. It compiles Lua to native x86 code (and I think there's work being done for PPC as well). It also has, from what I understand, an incredible FFI (foreign function interface) so you can use any existing C library (not sure about C++ though) natively. I've only played around a bit with LuaJIT (can't use it at work since we use SPARC, and LuaJIT doesn't support that architecture, but we do use Lua at work) and from what I've seen, it is *very* impressive. Lua itself it one of the fastest interpreted langauges going and LuaJIT brings it to C speed (or close enough). I use C and Lua for my main GOTO langauges these days (both for personal and work related projects). It's a nice little language. -spc (And Lua has been around since the early 90s, so it's not like it's anything new 8-)