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> Lua would be better than Python, imho, because it doesn't require an editor

Can you elaborate on this? How does Lua not require an editor? Is it spoken programming language or something?

Yeah, I was not quite coherent with that statement: I mean that Lua doesn't require that you learn to use an editor to line things up properly, a concept which my 5 and 8 year old kids definitely have an aversion to, since it seems like trivial nonsense (to them) to have to do formatting to make code work, having cut their teeth on the BASIC of our 8-bit battlestations set up for the task.

I just mean, to a new programmer - especially a young one - having to grasp alignment/editing concept is a stumbling block, and unnecessary when languages like Lua provide all the same degree of power as Python, and less to learn to get started..

> they absolutely are not interested in programming if everything has to line up right

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