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- Subject: Re: Another small and embedable language : Io
- From: Gustavo Niemeyer <niemeyer@...>
- Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 07:15:23 -0300
Hello Steve!
> Looks like Lua has the speed edge, but Io is competitive. Both appear
> to compare pretty well to Python, Perl and Ruby.
As a Python *and* Lua developer/fan, I wouldn't compare these languages
in the competitive sense. Python, Perl and Ruby are indeed competing
languages, but Lua has a different market share. I hope Lua never
become a "general purpose" language, like the others, or it'd most
probably lose the current market share. Notice that I'm not against
people developing extensions for the language to improve usefulness in
different markets, but I defintely wouldn't like to see Lua carrying a
big standard library, or a complex core with bells and whistles, for
example.
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Gustavo Niemeyer
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