Re: Lua as configuration language

[Tomas Guisasola Gorham <tomas@...>]

	Hi Marc

	Have you checked ALua?

ALua: flexibility for parallel programming, by C. Ururahy, N. Rodriguez, and R. Ierusalimschy. Computer Languages 28 #2 (2002) 155-180.

ALua: an event-driven communication mechanism for parallel and distributed programming, by C. Ururahy and N. Rodriguez. Proceedings of ISCA 12th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems (PDCS-99), Fort Lauderdale, USA, August 1999, pages 108-113.

	The references come from Lua site's Papers and theses:

http://www.lua.org/papers.html

	Regards,
		Tomás

On Fri, 4 Jan 2013, Marc Balmer wrote:

> Am 04.01.2013 um 18:00 schrieb Alexander Gladysh <agladysh@gmail.com>:
>
> > On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 8:58 PM, Alexander Gladysh <agladysh@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 8:47 PM, Marc Balmer <marc@msys.ch> wrote:
> > > > I posted a short article on how to use Lua as a configuration and data exchange language.
> > > >
> > > > Comments welcome.
> > > >
> > > > http://www.netbsd.org/~mbalmer/lua/lua_config.pdf
> >
> > BTW:
> >
> > > Lua chunks have even be used as protocol messages for client-server protocols over the network,
> > see [3] for details.
> >
> > While they have been used, it is not a sound practice, IMO. (1) Both
> > client and server must trust each other (or pay heavy sandboxing
> > toll), and (2) data deserialization is itself quite costly, when
> > compared with existing specialized alternatives.
>
> I agree.  I just mentioned it because I found it an interesting use case.
>
> And many thanks for you other comments!
>
> - Marc

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