From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: ruby or perl or lua or ...
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:14:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A5CE71E.4070403@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50d1c22d0907141209t19f5d4bfx503def4e2ff1e36e@mail.gmail.com>
ivo welch wrote:
> hi hans---just curious. do you plan conTeXt to use just one computer
> language in the future?
indeed. most useful script are already converted to lua (mtx-* files
that run on top of mtxrun); the advantage is that mtxrun has a built in
filedatabase handler (so we don't use kpsewhich at all) and is pretty fast
the only bit that is still depending on ruby is the index sorting that
is built in texexec (used by pdftex and xetex) but i could not motivate
myself to rewrite that bit
the luatx workflow only uses lua and uses luatex itself as lua
interpreter so there are no dependencies
Hans
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-14 19:09 ivo welch
2009-07-14 19:23 ` Mojca Miklavec
2009-07-14 20:19 ` Hans Hagen
2009-07-14 20:14 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
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