On Jan 18, 2007, at 2:50 PM, Phrogz wrote:

> Things that make Lua not nearly as cool as Ruby, in my opinion:
>  * The core library of functionality is extremely limited. (No IO. No
> time or date objects. No XML. Limited pattern matching.)

* No bitwise operations without a library when last I looked.  That  
one really hurt my ability to use it.

James Edward Gray II