From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: Philipp Gesang <pgesang@ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
Subject: Re: why lua?
Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2010 00:46:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D0BF64D.1090406@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101217232724.GA17742@aides>
On 18-12-2010 12:27, Philipp Gesang wrote:
> 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
Ah .. the extending vs the embedding debate ... well, an argument could
have been that we don't want to extend python -)
I've only used Pascal, Modula2, Perl (after all that compiling and
linking I loved the scripting aspect but the language ... well ...),
Ruby (brought me back happy Modula memories but it got so huge and had
incompatible updates but is still my second choice), but I feel quite
happy with Lua now.
Anyhow, I don't like languages that need religious arguments to become
popular.
Hans
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-17 23:46 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
2010-12-17 23:46 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
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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