On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 8:35 AM, Roshan Mathews <[email protected]> >> >> I shall teach lua in the next couple of days. >> > Ambitious. Maybe you should start with a "why lua?" post. :) >
I am a little confused. I spoke to Bharathi just now and I am not quite sure whether my approach will fly. How can I teach lua in 3 days? As to why lua? Well it is way too obvious. ;) It is a small programming language. It is perhaps as small as a scripting language can ever get. I like all things small. jQuery, OpenBSD, C. And it is not my preference alone that you should care about(if you care about that at all). Small things are the most powerful. lua is used for various tasks like embedding config file parsing in the C UNIX daemons for instance. It is trivial to embed a lua interpreter into C code. I don't remember how I got to know lua or even how I got to know Shreya. Nowadays it has become so familiar especially with the 'Call Mumbai like you call Madurai' ads that I forget the initial introduction. ion window manager has excellent lua integration. All configurations in ion are done using lua scripts. lua can be used for generating thumbnails of images, for socket communication for simple text based protocols like HTTP, SMTP or FTP. It can be used for math and whatever perl or python can do. Its potential is already very obvious to me. I think I have tried to sell it in a small way. In case you are still not convinced perhaps looking at my sample code would help? Obviously I am not the author. ;) $ wget http://gayatri-hitech.com/Misc/lua.tgz -Girish -- Gayatri Hitech web: http://gayatri-hitech.com SpamCheetah Spam filter: http://spam-cheetah.com _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [email protected] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
