Re: What makes Lua tick?

[Rena <hyperhacker@...>]

On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 03:12, Petite Abeille <petite.abeille@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Apr 9, 2012, at 10:18 AM, Dimitris Papavasiliou wrote:
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>> You might find some of the material here of interest:
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>> http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/cvpub.html
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> Here is another list:
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> http://www.lua.org/docs.html#papers
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> "The Evolution of Lua"
> http://www.lua.org/doc/hopl.pdf
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> All good reads.
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> As far as Lua itself goes, I personally like its small footprint, minimalistic approach and focus on simple, but powerful, mechanisms.
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> At a more practical level, I like the BYO [1] approach to Lua development, where one assembles just the right level of functionalities for a given problem domain, as opposed to the kitchen-sink approach of other platforms.
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> The fact that there is no batteries included with Lua, is, paradoxically, one of its great strength.
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> "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication"
> -- Leonardo da Vinci
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> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BYOB_(acronym)
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>

I often find myself looking at some program I've written and going "it
works... but it needs to be simpler!" Lua really makes you realize how
powerful simplicity can be.

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