>|Continuing a time-honoured tradition of MusiXTeX add-ons >|in languages that only the developers themselves are >|comfortable with; I'm as guilty as any, what with M-Tx >|being written in Pascal. It means that when we (some of >|whom are at the age when we constantly need to redefine >|"elderly" so that it doesn't apply to ourselves) finally >|get too ga-ga to program, maintenance stops.
Maintenance will stop whichever language is used if the code isn't well-structured and well-documented. The main advantage of Lua is that compilation isn't needed: any modern TeX installation provides a Lua interpreter. Bob ------------------------------- TeX-music@tug.org mailing list If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
