From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/64610 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: why lua? Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2010 00:46:21 +0100 Message-ID: <4D0BF64D.1090406@wxs.nl> References: <20101217232724.GA17742@aides> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1292629619 9178 80.91.229.12 (17 Dec 2010 23:46:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 23:46:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Philipp Gesang To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sat Dec 18 00:46:53 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PTk0h-0003xp-AG for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Dec 2010 00:46:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9ACEECA918; Sat, 18 Dec 2010 00:46:50 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id a5F5h1pSAYHf; Sat, 18 Dec 2010 00:46:47 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEAAFCA915; Sat, 18 Dec 2010 00:46:47 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94F81CA915 for ; Sat, 18 Dec 2010 00:46:45 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id nHz-FL4HZuyS for ; Sat, 18 Dec 2010 00:46:34 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from filter1-nij.mf.surf.net (filter1-nij.mf.surf.net [195.169.124.152]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AF00CA8BF for ; Sat, 18 Dec 2010 00:46:34 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from smtp.ziggozakelijk.nl (D57D1DA2.static.ziggozakelijk.nl [213.125.29.162]) by filter1-nij.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5+lenny1) with ESMTP id oBHNkVJL003045 for ; Sat, 18 Dec 2010 00:46:33 +0100 X-Default-Received-SPF: pass (skip=loggedin (res=PASS)) x-ip-name=10.100.1.100; Original-Received: from [10.100.1.100] (unverified [10.100.1.100]) by pragma-net.nl (SurgeMail 4.3g4) with ESMTP id 20557-1713362 for multiple; Sat, 18 Dec 2010 00:41:11 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101207 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.7 ThunderBrowse/3.3.4 In-Reply-To: <20101217232724.GA17742@aides> X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-9 X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=213.125.29.162; country=NL; region=11; city=Den Haag; latitude=52.0833; longitude=4.3000; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=52.0833,4.3000&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 07DInKvPo - 4efcb5d69379 - 20101218 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 195.169.124.152 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:64610 Archived-At: 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________