On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, David Douthitt wrote:
> > I like lua and am currently learning it. It has advantages that it is a
> > clean syntax, good for configuration files and configuration processing,
> > it is smaller than Perl/Python, but offers more features than 'sh', it is
> > very portable and very good in an embedded/small environment, its was
> > designed to be an embedded environment. The PalmOS version is and example
> > of this.
>
> Sounds like our kind of language!
Would these benefits to Oxygen out weigh the extra disk space it will use?
If some packages still use 'sh', is it suitable to have two script tools?
I think that the functional gains that lua provides without needing a full
Perl installation justifies it. I am sure that disk space can be regained
by doing some of the things that tomsrtbt does (eg: replace mawk and other
tools with lua). But would this break compatability with some other
packages?
Dale.
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