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- Subject: Re: [ANN] First release of Ravi (alpha 0.1)
- From: Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>
- Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 14:12:22 -0300
> Let's compromise on saying that Terra is a Lua 5.1.4 descendant
> retaining source level compatibility with LuaJIT.
I think there two "Terra"s here: Terra the project and Terra the
language. Terra the project is a project that adds staged computation
to Lua; Terra the language is the language used in the "second" stage
of those staged computations. Terra the language is quite different from
Lua (and from LuaJIT). It is a language designed to be statically
compiled and to generate efficient code.
-- Roberto
