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
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