Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
Hans Hagen writes:
> Mohamed Bana wrote:
> > and i'm not trolling, i just want to know why. please share your
> > thoughts.
>
> [...] it's meant as as embedable language
Hans,
you missed the most important point: Though Lua is a very modern and
extremely powerful
Hans Hagen writes:
> Mohamed Bana wrote:
> > and i'm not trolling, i just want to know why. please share your
> > thoughts.
>
> [...] it's meant as as embedable language
Hans,
you missed the most important point: Though Lua is a very modern and
extremely powerful programming language with
Mohamed Bana skribis:
> why precisely was Lua chosen as the implementation language?/ ANT (ant is
> not TeX)/, see http://ant.berlios.de/ was registered: 2005-Nov-23 10:38.
> as far as i'm aware, dynamic languages are generally much slower than those
> that are statically typed.
Ant may be w
Mohamed Bana wrote:
heys guys,
why precisely was Lua chosen as the implementation language?/ ANT (ant
it's an extension language but indeed one can write extensions to tex in
it
is not TeX)/, see http://ant.berlios.de/ was registered: 2005-Nov-23
i must admit that i never looked into a
2008/12/26 Mohamed Bana :
> why precisely was Lua chosen as the implementation language?/ ANT (ant is
Lua is not the implementation language of luaTeX; check your facts.
luaTeX started as pdfTeX + lua; ant is a typesetting engine written in
OCaml, which is a completely different approach.
> far
heys guys,
why precisely was Lua chosen as the implementation language?/ ANT (ant
is not TeX)/, see http://ant.berlios.de/ was registered: 2005-Nov-23
10:38. as far as i'm aware, dynamic languages are generally much slower
than those that are statically typed.
and i'm not trolling, i just
