Mohamed Bana wrote:
heys guys,
why precisely was Lua chosen as the implementation language?/ ANT (ant
it's an extension language but indeed one can write extensions to tex in
it
is not TeX)/, see http://ant.berlios.de/ was registered: 2005-Nov-23
i must admit that i never looked into ant
10:38. as far as i'm aware, dynamic languages are generally much slower
than those that are statically typed.
so what ... at least users can extend now without the need to recompile
and i'm not trolling, i just want to know why. please share your thoughts.
short answer: because like lua and because it's meant as as embedable
language
we have been publishing for several years about luatex so there should
be googleable resources (tug, ntg, dante, gust, conference proceedings,
luatex mail archive, context list mail archive, etc)
Hans
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