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Kein-Hong Man wrote:
Maurício wrote:Do you guys think it would be possible to have something like an ECMALua (like ECMAScript)? Maybe with an available standard it would be easier to have Lua in many applications. (My dream is to be able to use Lua instead of Javascript in web pages. Maybe "ECMALua" would be a step in that direction.)My 2 cents... Lua is a little corner of unspoilt paradise. I hate to think what would happen if everyone is invited to the party. :-) There is no need to attempt world domination by way of pandering to 1001 standards-setting bodies. I'd prefer recognition of the language by technical merit.
I agree, I fear the result if the language was to be taken off the hands of the current team and managed by a committee...
Lua is already in a whole lot of applications. But Lua cannot win all the time, because many parties will defend their own choice of scripting language religiously. Try swaying the mind of a Python evangelist... :-) Whatever, any language is good as long as it gets the job gets done.
That remember me the not-so-old discussion on Lua failing to convince the decision-makers because it wasn't C-like enough...
One client-side scripting language for HTML is quite enough for me. Do we really need another one? :-)
Remember Yindo? It was a cool project: using ActiveX (IIRC) to allow embedding Lua in Web pages on the client side.
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