Re: lua chip AND SOME IDEA

[Mike Pall <mikelu-0501@...>]

Hi,

PA wrote:
> On Jan 13, 2005, at 16:14, Ashish Ranjan wrote:
> >(http://www.prevayler.org/wiki.jsp?topic=TransparentPersistence.)
> 
> http://www.pyrasun.com/mike/mt/archives/2004/12/23/22.37.00/

Only listening to the most vocal proponents of either camp is a bad idea.
The flamewar on this topic is raging for quite a while now. A bit more
modesty on either side would certainly help. Please let's not spread the
discussion on this list.

Transparent persistence is an old concept with many variations. Prevayler
is not a particularly good one and the codebase sucks. But the ideas behind
it should not be discounted. Not that many people are running around in
T-shirts that say 'I love SQL' or 'I do O/R mapping for fun'. There must
be a reason for this. Enough said.

But back to Lua: There is no reason to put transparent persistence into
the Lua core. Lua provides enough meta mechanisms to implement this in an
add-on library. And this is one of the key differences between Lua and
other languages.

http://lua-users.org/wiki/ZenOfLua

Bye,
     Mike