RE: Positioning a new lua distribution

["Nick Trout" <ntrout@...>]

> Henrique de Figueiredo
> Sent: February 28, 2003 4:48 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: Re: Positioning a new lua distribution
> 
> 
> >But could you maybe elaborate why you think one mght find it 
> usefull to
> >embed one scripting language into another?
> >Binding C-code can't be the real reason, Python bindings are 
> rather easy
> >too.
> 
> As someone already pointed out here, one reason might be to 
> use the huge
> amount of libraries that already exist for these other 
> scripting languages,
> Python being the prime example, I guess.


This is what I'd like to see. If someone wrote a proxy you could use all
of the other languages libraries.

	Lua <-> proxy <-> Python (etc)

You could imagine it like some sort of COM interface (although I don't
know COM [he says distancing himself from the horror :) ]).