[OT] Lua

From	Ivan Shmakov <oneingray@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	alt.comp.lang.lua, comp.lang.c
Subject	[OT] Lua
Date	2013-06-08 17:31 +0000
Organization	Aioe.org NNTP Server
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>>>>> Seebs  <usenet-nospam@seebs.net> writes:
>>>>> On 2013-06-06, Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> wrote:

	[Cross-posting to news:alt.comp.lang.lua, just to make keeping
	the track of it easier.]

 >> That /is/ a good idea (the general one: learning C by using it for
 >> extensions to your favorite scripting language).  We should remember
 >> to suggest that the next time someone asks.

 > It is.  And I quite like Lua, too. :)

	I wonder, what's so good in Lua specifically?

	Indeed, it seems to be one of the first "embeddable" languages
	to appear, but now that a number of them (including a variety of
	Lisp derivatives, Python, and of course Tcl) has reached the
	"mature" state, I don't quite understand, -- why Lua?

	And personally, I tend to like Tcl for the purpose, mainly for
	its well-designed FFI, its support for Unicode, and that it
	looks like a mature language for years now.

	(... But more than that, I like to embed C into HLL software,
	such as that written in Perl, -- and not the other way around.)

PS.  I hadn't yet the chance to say I'm glad to see you're back to
	Usenet.  So I do it now.

-- 
FSF associate member #7257

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Good bootstrap application to learn C for what C is intended for? Tinxx <jeti789@web.de> - 2013-06-05 04:22 -0700
  Re: Good bootstrap application to learn C for what C is intended for? Öö Tiib <ootiib@hot.ee> - 2013-06-05 04:59 -0700
  Re: Good bootstrap application to learn C for what C is intended for? Bart van Ingen Schenau <bart@ingen.ddns.info.invalid> - 2013-06-05 14:45 +0000
    Re: Good bootstrap application to learn C for what C is intended for? Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2013-06-05 21:17 +0000
      Re: Good bootstrap application to learn C for what C is intended for? Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2013-06-06 11:07 +1200
    Re: Good bootstrap application to learn C for what C is intended for? Tinxx <jeti789@web.de> - 2013-06-06 01:22 -0700
      Re: Good bootstrap application to learn C for what C is intended for? Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2013-06-06 15:26 +0000
        Re: Good bootstrap application to learn C for what C is intended for? Seebs <usenet-nospam@seebs.net> - 2013-06-07 22:19 +0000
          [OT] Lua Ivan Shmakov <oneingray@gmail.com> - 2013-06-08 17:31 +0000
            Re: [OT] Lua Tinxx <jeti789@web.de> - 2013-06-09 12:00 -0700
            Re: [OT] Lua David Brown <david@westcontrol.removethisbit.com> - 2013-06-10 09:29 +0200
              Re: [OT] Lua "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2013-06-10 09:48 +0100
            Re: [OT] Lua David Brown <david@westcontrol.removethisbit.com> - 2013-06-10 09:30 +0200
  Re: Good bootstrap application to learn C for what C is intended for? James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2013-06-05 10:55 -0400
  Re: Good bootstrap application to learn C for what C is intended for? "osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2013-06-05 10:02 -0500
    Re: Good bootstrap application to learn C for what C is intended for? Rosario1903 <Rosario@invalid.invalid> - 2013-06-05 21:55 +0200

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