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From: Philipp Gesang <pgesang@ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: why lua?
Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2010 00:27:25 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101217232724.GA17742@aides> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vmbst7-pc2.ln1@news.jonasstein.de>


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On 2010-12-17 <16:20:31>, Jonas Stein wrote:
> i'd like to make a small presentation for friends about
> context. 
> Why do we use lua and not python or perl or...
> Where can i find the features for lua for this job?

After all those arguments in favor of Lua the only thing I can
add are valid reasons against using python for embedding:
  http://twistedmatrix.com/users/glyph/rant/extendit.html
and concerning perl ;)
  http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2010-02/msg00934.html

Regards, Philipp


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-12-17 23:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-17 15:20 Jonas Stein
2010-12-17 21:46 ` Martin Schröder
2010-12-17 22:35 ` Philipp A.
2010-12-17 22:51   ` Hans Hagen
2010-12-18  8:35     ` luigi scarso
2010-12-17 22:48 ` Hans Hagen
2010-12-17 23:27 ` Philipp Gesang [this message]
2010-12-17 23:46   ` Hans Hagen
2010-12-18  0:50     ` Philipp A.
2010-12-18  5:56       ` Aditya Mahajan
2010-12-18 11:03       ` Philipp Gesang
2010-12-18 11:35         ` Hans Hagen
2010-12-18 13:06           ` Philipp Gesang
2010-12-18 13:20             ` Hans Hagen
2010-12-18 14:17               ` Philipp Gesang
2010-12-18 18:54                 ` Hans Hagen
2010-12-18 11:31       ` Taco Hoekwater
2010-12-18 13:04       ` Hans Hagen
2010-12-18 13:18         ` luigi scarso
2010-12-18 13:24           ` Hans Hagen

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