On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 3:58 AM, Roman V. Shaposhnik <rvs@sun.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 2009-08-13 at 11:55 -0600, Daniel Lyons wrote:
> > I'd love it if Acme or Plan 9 had good support for some kind of Lisp
> > variant.
>
> Speaking of which (or may be not ;-)) is there anybody using Lua
> on Plan9?
>
> Thanks,
> Roman.
>
> P.S. The more I look into Lua (as a way to help C refuge start
> doing some functional stuff) the more it seems that the two have
> a lot in common when it comes to software architecture.
>
>
> Last time I tried, the standard Lua compiled out of the box under the APE.

Great little language. I use it in my day job (together with Erlang). It's
implementation is indeed just as enlightening as the Plan 9 code. An
exercise in doing exactly what is required and no more. Very elegant in my
eyes.

Robby