Comment by Rochus
1 year ago
> Luon looks mostly like Oberon and not so much like Lua
Luon can indeed look similar to Oberon if you use upper-case keywords and semicolons, but there is not need for this. Both - Lua and Luon - have much in common with Modula-2 (given lower-case keywords). There are many elements in Luon which are pretty similar to Lua, e.g. constructors, pcall, most control and loop statements. But there are also significant differences of course, because Luon is a statically typed language and Lua isn't.
Modula-2 – a blast from my past. Back in the ‘80s I used it to implement a prototype distributed OS (as designed by a team at JPL) on VAXen. Logitech (!) had a really nice VAX compiler back then. One of the most productive 6-month stretches of my career. Luon looks like an answer to my unspoken prayers. Thank you!
Welcome. Actually we learned Modula-2 when I was at ETH in the eighties, and I had even a job at DEC Switzerland for some time where I had to develop course ware for the VAX Modula-2 compiler, but it was from DEC as far as I remember (probably this one: https://github.com/GunterMueller/DEC-Modula-2). Luon is actually a subset of my Oberon+ language; maybe you want to have a look at it: https://oberon-lang.github.io/.
I love Oberon: spent a few years mainly working in Oberon Microsystems Oberon/F aka Component Pascal, another beautiful language.