Re: A citation on Lua

[askok@...]

I think for him lack of 'split' counts as a design flaw?

Anyways, it would be nice to get in touch with the person.

Unfortunately (or: fortunately?) his website gives 404: 
http://ousfg.net/~archie

With 2 secs of Googling, he'd found:
http://lua-users.org/wiki/SplitJoin    :)

-asko


On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 10:24:10 +0100
 Philippe Lhoste <PhiLho@GMX.net> wrote:
> Somebody that goes against the flow... :-)
> "I've been working with Lua recently - can't say that I 
> like it very much. It has some remarkably academic 
> features for something that's used so commerically, but 
> it's a complete pig to work with and it's hard not to sit 
> and frown at the (in my opinion) ugly design."
>
> http://archiemaskill.blogspot.com/2006/08/string-splitting-in-lua.html
>
> He has the right to have an opinion, of course, but I 
> regret he doesn't expand on what design flaws he found. 
> Such out of the blue remark isn't useful / constructive / 
> credible. Even less when written after a day of 
> programming...
>
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