[alanfalcon]

I took some Visual Basic programming courses in high school, some PASCAL courses in college, and then didn't program anything other than basic HTML/CSS for the next eight years. Last year I programmed an iPhone game in Lua (using the Corona SDK) and it was easy as Tau. Sure a better programmer would have finished the programming aspects in a quarter the time it took me, but I started by looking at Objective-C and I'm not sure I ever would have picked it up without some kind of formal training. Contrast with Corona/Lua, where I watched a few eight minute videos on YouTube and could turn around and make simple but complete programs, and more importantly completely understand what was going on within them. Reading the Lua documentation was a revelation, reading Apple's was a headache.

Why Lua? http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/beat-boxes/id460798042

[sixcorners]

Doesn't Apple forbid applications built using things like this?

[evgen]

As long as you are not running code that is downloaded after app install (e.g. either embedded in the app itself or entered by the user from the keyboard) you are good to go. This mod to the previously ominous app store policies is used by quite a lot of applications.