Re: call for presentations at the Lua Workshop 2011

[Peter Odding <peter@...>]

Hi list & Lua team!

> We are now planning the program for the Lua Workshop 2011. If you'd
> like to speak at the Workshop, please state it here, giving a tentative
> title and a short abstract.

Sorry for taking so long to reply (I graduated this month) but if there
is still time and space I would love to give a presentation about the
Lua/APR binding. Below you can find an abstract.

*Lua/APR: An extended standard library for Lua*

Lua is a very elegant programming language, both because of its
conceptual simplicity and the small size of its implementation, but this
small size comes with a price: Lua's operating system interfaces are
quite minimal and (in a sense) this makes Lua a second-class citizen on
popular platforms like Windows and UNIX systems.

In this presentation the author will talk about Lua/APR, a binding of
the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) for Lua. The talk will start with the
author's motivation for creating the binding, followed by a short
introduction to APR and its origins. Next a short summary of the
available operating system interfaces will be given. After this the
technical challenges in creating the binding will be discussed. Finally
the author will share his master plan in creating Lua/APR :-)

 - Peter Odding