>A.</b>
Lua is small and simple.  I wanted not to be vulnerable to future
changes in language definitions or implementations, which meant I
would have to clone and maintain the implementation forever. When I
was making this decision in 1997, Lua&nbsp;2.5 was small enough that I
could feel comfortable doing this.
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<p><b>Q.</b>
    Are there noweb comments?
 It would be very useful to comment parts of a noweb file that wouldn't 
 be parsed as either TeX or code.
<p><blockquote><b>A.</b>
I recom