Re: code base relevance 1.X vs 5.X

[Alexander Gladysh <agladysh@...>]

On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 05:12, Patrick Mc(avery
<spell_gooder_now@spellingbeewinnars.org> wrote:
> I am trying to study the Lua source code. It is very complex and deeply
> intertwined, it will take me sometime to understand it.

You may be interested in this post:

http://www.reddit.com/comments/63hth/ask_reddit_which_oss_codebases_out_there_are_so/c02pxbp

> I downloaded 1.0 and it's manual. It seems much simpler. Are the basic
> concepts the same? Would it be wise to study the versions one by one to
> catch up or was there some sort of major rebirth along the way that made the
> old code irrelevant?

I guess, not exactly the same:

http://www.lua.org/doc/hopl.pdf

Alexander.