Re: Future of Lua 4.1

[Philippe Lhoste <PhiLho@...>]

> On Thursday, February 7, 2002, at 06:53 PM, Peter Loveday wrote:
> > Is a Lua book being published ? That'd be great.
> 
> If it's an O'Reilly book, I wonder what animal will be on the cover? :-)
> 
> Steve

If you search on the archive, you will find the following URL:
www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/luabook1.ps.gz

It seems still valid. (Unlike the link to CGILua in Roberto's page :-)

It is a draft, unfinished, based on Lua 4.0. I highly recommend its reading,
both for newbies and seasoned users. I learned a lot of stuff reading it, it
is clear and well written, and full of useful examples and code snippets.
Someone should really collect them to the WikiWiki, BTW...
When I will try and use tags, I will reread the corresponding section in the
book, I felt I understood how it is working (even if I forgot most of it
already :-)

The animal? I would see an antropomorphized (? human like) etching of the
moon, 18th century style.

Also, in French we speak about a "poisson lune", a moon fish, I don't know
if this literal translation exists in English.
See http://www.poisson-lune.org/, or more accurately:
http://cimnts.mnhn.fr/Evolution/Gge.nsf/47c329c133c90dba802565a10056ba51/12edb758cc9d503f802565c4003e9636?OpenDocument So it is SunFish, talk about contradiction, it is not
suitable for an English book :-( Also
http://perl.club-internet.fr/cgi-bin/ehmel/ehmel_media.pl?doc_type=6&doc_id=mz169a&doc_hash=mz169a

Mmm, there is a moon fish, see http://www.pluto.no/Doogie/moonfish/ Perhaps
they are the same. OK, last URL: http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~frf/rfe0mn.html

Regards.

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