Re: why lua?

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

On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 11:51 PM, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
> On 17-12-2010 11:35, Philipp A. wrote:
>>
>> 2010/12/17 Jonas Stein<news@jonasstein.de>
>>
>>> i'd like to make a small presentation for friends about
>>> context.
>>> Why do we use lua and not python or perl or...
>>>
>>
>> you can. google for “luatex lunatic”.
>> you’ll have to build a little module defining the macros you use, though.
>> (like \ctxpython, \directpython and so on)
>>
>> Where can i find the features for lua for this job?
>
> In what sense? Context core code will never use \ctxpython, \ctxruby,
> \ctxperl, so it will be module specific as one cannot depend on libraries
> being on the system, at least not before luatex is stabelized. Btw, I'm not
> sure if Luigi made a module for it
no ( but can be interesting )
>(if he still uses python at all).
yes, for plone

-- 
luigi
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