The advantage of Lua (at least for my project, which is a game) is that it is quite easy to embed, and quite easy to customize. The C API is small and easily understandable (at the expense of being a little bit of a pain to use), and the internals are simple and quite malleable. The language itself is pretty ugly IMHO.
So... I can't think of a good purpose of Lua/Parrot myself. I'm not trying to discourage you by any means! If I were to embed a Parrot interpreter for our next game (!) I'd happily leave Lua behind. p > Only thing I need to know before I can start is: what would the purpose be > of a Lua to Parrot compiler? Lua is originally an embedded language for > easy-scripting, as far as I understand. How could it be used when targeted > to parrot? Would it be possible to call functions written in Lua > (and which > are then compiled to parrot) from (for example) a python script? > (So: python > script calls function writtenin Lua and compiled to parrot). > > Klaas-Jan
