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On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 8:55 PM, Petite Abeille <petite_abeille@mac.com> wrote:
>
> On Oct 18, 2008, at 9:34 PM, Matthew Wild wrote:
>
>> I know... I use it a lot (I have commit access in fact). But there is
>> no XML parser in Javascript there :) That's what the browser is for.
>
> Bah... got base64, xml and even md5 all implemented in Lua:
>
> http://lua-users.org/wiki/BaseSixtyFour
> http://lua-users.org/wiki/LuaXml
> http://www.equi4.com/wikis/lua/38
>
> Arguably, even the network stack itself could be handled though
> stdin/stdout;
>
> http://cr.yp.to/ucspi-tcp/tcpclient.html
>

I'm aware of that. I just don't think it is worth the hassle and the
performance hit. So mostly I was making the case for why I chose to do
things the way I have.

Matthew.