Re: Lua OS!

[steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@...>]

On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 5:25 PM, Timothy Baldridge <tbaldridge@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> no need for new operators; functions do quite well.
>
> I know that's the common response, but I argue otherwise...If I'm
> building a complex application where every process is constantly
> firing off messages to other processes. Or in a Micro kernel
> framework, where to even write to the disk I have to fire off a
> message, the last thing I want to do is write:
>
> luaproc.send(proc, ["write", "foo"])
>
> it's much, much cleaner, faster and easier to just write:
>
> proc ! ["write", "foo"]
>
> and makes more sense....or at least:
>
> proc.send(["write", "foo"])
>
> So I guess functions could work....but I still think the Erlang method
> is cleaner.
>
> Timothy
>
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> of their C programs.”
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