Re: FreiSein (parascriptum/parashell reincarnation)

[Justin F. <vh...@us...>]

komrades,

> Justin proposed to us LUA.. to be honest, I wasn't impressed with one
> the first time I saw it and I'm not impressed now. probably LUA's a
> good thing but we're gonna make much more lightweight, fast and
> extensible product.

Well, trying to find an argument why Lua should not be an option I've 
discovered what I was afraid of.  It is portable and runs on all known 
modern platforms.  It compiles the source to a byte code before 
executing it.  It is very small: the maximum size of the binary is 
around 41k (roughly the same on all platforms).  It is modular by 
design: you can disable modules responsible for source code translation, 
making the library even smaller (around 25k) and the execution will be 
even faster.  This is all explained in Technical Note 2 [1].

It allows writing custom extensions in form of operators, commands and 
variable types.  The more I read, the more I like it.  I'm not exactly 
sure why would we reinvent this wheel, anymore.  Neither am I sure that 
we can do it this good in an acceptable time slice.

So what exactly do you dislike in Lua and where exactly does it 
dissatisfy you?

1. http://www.lua.org/notes/ltn002.html

out.