Re: The World According to Lua: How To?

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

On Feb 19, 2005, at 00:01, Glenn Maynard wrote:

> Huh?  Lua is specifically designed to be a good extension language, and
> not at all designed to be an application language.

Well... funnily enough I see Lua exactly the other way around: a good, 
small, extensible language :) I guess you could spin it both way.

>  The good uses of a
> language come from its design; you don't design a language and then go
> figure out what it's good at.

Hmmm... in a nutshell, this is pretty much the genesis of a lot of 
languages, no? ... look at Java for instance... :P

> (Of course, I'm getting that from having read the manual and PiL, 
> having
> used the language, and from my personal experience of what properties a
> language must have to be good at handling large applications--it's very
> clear that Lua doesn't have them, and isn't intended to.  That's 
> probably
> part of why it's so good at being an extension language--they didn't 
> try
> to make it do everything.)

A language doesn't have to do everything. But it shouldn't preclude 
"doing everything".

As someone said at the bottom of page 105 of "Programming in Lua":

"Lua gives you the power, you build the mechanisms"

That's good enough for me :)

Cheers

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