From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/64628 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: luigi scarso Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: why lua? 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I once read about Icon as language and somehow that one also had some > appeal. I never had a running environment. Smalltalk is also nice, esp the > (original) books (esp the historic one), it's easy to try squeak http://www.squeak.org/ >and Lisp (in relation to tex) also > has some appeal. True, see http://www.nongnu.org/skribilo/ (there is also a context support) A binding to libguile should be no difficult to achieve. >Live is too short to learn all those languages and stay > fluent in them, i.e. one simply forgets a lot when usage zeros. we should start to think how to to become immortal. -- luigi ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________