-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 21 January 2003 07:16 am, Simon Wistow wrote: > On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 12:14:29PM +0100, K Stol said: > > LUA seems to be a very nice language, but how is this language to be > > used? Is it in combination with a C program one would write? Or could it > > be used as a stand alone application? In that case, it seems to me it > > would be interesting to have a LUA->Parrot (with IMCC in between) > > compiler. > > As I said, I only know it from a games context where it's used as the > basis for the scripting engine. AIUI it can be used a a standalone > language as well. > > From what I know it's specifically designed to be a portable, fast, > lightweight platform for extending platforms and providing a framework > for implementing domain specific languages.
IIRC, it's also being used in some browsers (elinks, at least) as a lightweight stand-in for javascript. Not that anyone actually uses it, of course. - --hobbs -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+La/16xdpaulLLFURAhCQAJ9Brp3HKF97j2Ocgs3PbXQVf9tLBgCfX9pE c0n2Kb/mjg6ND7t5/gvX9FQ= =j0px -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
