Re: C++ religious war (was: llua Higher-level C API for Lua)

[Jeremy Ong <jeremycong@...>]

It's clearly so people can make youtube videos of Lua compiling in a
1990 version of Turbo C :D

On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 2:15 AM, Rena <hyperhacker@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 2:54 AM, steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 8:14 AM, Coda Highland <chighland@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > I mean, if we wanted to start a religious war, try suggesting that Lua
>> > should be written in C++ instead of C89 and see where THAT goes. ;)
>>
>> Absolutely!  We have enough of a frothy when suggesting C99 ;)  But
>> (and this is important) Lua does _build_ with C++ and can use proper
>> exception handling rather than that weird hack called longjmp.
>>
>> At least, we're not discussing editors.  That gets out of control
>> really quickly!
>>
>
> I hate to ask, but now I'm curious... why *doesn't* Lua use C99? Is it
> because of Microsoft compilers not supporting it well, or are there other
> reasons?
>
> --
> Sent from my Game Boy.