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In contrast, in Japan, they may have NFC payments by card/phone, online payments, but every single bus/train/cab/boat accepts cash as the lowest common denominator. Forget payments, all public offices still support paper + post for all procedures I've had to do, with the option of doing things with a phone or a PC. In India, however, for several things I've had to do, they would rip out the old system and replace it with a online portal with dubious implementation, and often disregarding laws (for example using UID number as legal identity proof, while it shouldn't have been, by law).
EDIT: oh, I missed the first paragraph "I want to note that the language is technically called "Lua" and the authors explicitly request people to refrain from calling it LUA, but I always shout whenever I say it in real life", good troll :|
A somewhat related thing(not addressed by this yet) is about Electric Imp, who had to switch to a different language from lua(which they started with). The reason was that they needed to store values for an LED array, and the only data type is tables, and all integers are 32 bit.
Not sure but they might have used user defined types, with the arrays stuff being done in C, might have been easier.
http://www.reddit.com/r/listentothis/comments/269fef/moondog...