Re: BASIC-like Lua variant

["Joseph Manning" <manning@...>]

On 2014-Jan-16 (Thu) at 06:44 (-0600), Andrew Starks wrote:

>> Lua seemed like stupid, slow C to him then. Now, a good day involves
>> deleting hundreds of line of C and replacing it with Lua. The line count is
>> usually about a third.

Andrew,

   Perhaps drifting somewhat OT regarding BASIC, but doing line-counts
   for text-based file managers gave the following [1] :

      Name                Language  Files  Lines
      ----                --------  -----  ------
      FDclone                 C      102   94,586
      Midnight Commander      C      325   92,228
      vfu                     C       56   14,948
      ytree                   C       58   13,970
      vifm                    C       40    9,010
      CFM                    Lua       1      718

   CFM, written in Lua, has 14 times fewer lines than the next smallest,
   and 132 times fewer lines than the largest.

   Granted, it's a bit apples-and-oranges here, as CFM lacks many of the
   ( rarely-used? ) features of some of the others, but it does manage
   to provide all(?) the core functionality expected in a file manager.

   [1] http://www.lua.org/wshop13.html#Manning

Joseph

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Joseph Manning / Computer Science / UCC Cork Ireland / manning@cs.ucc.ie
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