On 7/1/22 9:44 am, Bob Bridges wrote:
I never heard of Lua until I started playing Factorio a few years ago;
apparently it's the language in which players can add mods to the game. For
that reason I wasn't sure even what it is. Is it really a programming
language, or some special-purpose thingy?
It's a programming language. It's niche is to to be embedded as it's
core is tiny which is why it is the language of choice for video game
scripting or mods. Almost all AAA video games use Lua. It was designed
as a configuration language so
has features that make it ideal for writting DSLs
https://leafo.net/guides/dsl-in-lua.html.
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René Jansen
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I will look into Lua. Need to do that for TeX anyway.
--- On 6 Jan 2022, at 21:05, David Crayford <[email protected]> wrote:
...All of those requirements are met by Lua which runs on z/OS, including
modules in PDS data sets, supports TSO/ISPF and the entire file system
including VSAM which REXX does not. https://lua4z.github.io/Lua4z/
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