Re: Script to automatically generate typescripts

[luigi scarso <luigi.scarso@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Mojca Miklavec
<mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 09:32, luigi scarso wrote:
>>
>> 2) why python ? We have lua in luatex; mkiv has a lot of lua code about fonts.
>
> Hmmm ... the guy who spent most of his time in community trying to
> make python work with ConTeXt is now complaining about the programming
> language? Come on ... :)
I'm not say that it's wrong.
It's  the same as if I write a lua script to do "XYZ" for Plone: why ?
There are a lot of python code in Plone that probably can be used to do "XYZ".

>
> Whenever I write something I use the language I master most (even if
> it's not the most suitable language for that task), so I guess that
> must be the reason. But if the script proves to be useful, it's still
> short enough that anyone could convert it to Lua to get rid of
> dependencies on yet another language.
A python's programmer  has no problem to write a lua version
(and a javascript programmer too, as  Mathias Nater showed to me)

The key point here is the dependency on another language:
for luatex it's almost useless
to use a scripting/dynamic language other than lua
(I hope one day we will end without ruby and perl for mkiv too, if reasonable) .

Of course perl, ruby. python,<put_your_favorite_language_here>
are all goods programming languages
but mixing them together not always make a good pie .

-- 
luigi
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