Are there good books on Lua? Where and for what type of projects (general business apps or more scientific number crunching) is it suited most? Been thinking about diving into it :)
I do know that one of the programming language that has never seen much of sunshine (public exposure) is Smalltalk. I did a bit of that during school days and i'd recommend it to anyone. Go for either CinCom or Squeak... I'd personally not bias myself with this discussion.
Anyway for e.g., take a look at VM model, Smalltalk which was written some ~13 odd years before Java already had VM model, it already had OO and dynamic runtime reflection (the ability to infer information about Classes themselves)... lot more. The whole shebang was there longer than one might have thought about it.