Re: The World According to Lua: How To?

[PA <petite.abeille@...>]

On Feb 18, 2005, at 22:06, Glenn Maynard wrote:

> I'm not saying one can't; I'm saying one normally does not.  Lua is an
> extension language; extending is what it's good at.  If you're writing
> a whole application in it, you'll quickly find out what the difference
> is--it's not good at it, and isn't supposed to be.

Perhaps... time will tell... on the other hand... if people didn't 
experiment with Lua in new and weird ways... Lua would still languish 
as an obscure "data entry language" of sort:

http://www.lua.org/history.html

"The users of a language ultimately define it, not the writers of the 
specification."
-- unknown

> Basically, "you're doing it wrong".  (Which you can do if you want, but
> I don't think it'll be considered a bug when it doesn't have features
> of an application language.)

I have been known for "doing it wrong" before :) This is the point of 
the exercise. Failure is an option.

Cheers

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