Re: [OT] LUPad - The Trailer

Hi Thijs :)

On Feb 13, 2005, at 21:24, Thijs Stalenhoef wrote:

> How does it compare to Ruby?

I don't know Ruby enough to answer that question. Lua is more of a sort 
of meta-language than a traditional programming language.

"Lua gives you the power; you build the mechanisms."
-- Roberto Ierusalimschy, Programming in Lua, 2003

http://www.lua.org/pil/

>  The stuff above sounds a bit weird...

You surely mean "exotic" :)

> Are you using Lua stand-alone,

Yes.

> or are you glueing C stuff together with it?

Yes. With additional bindings for some C libraries I use (e.g. gdbm, 
posix, etc).

Cheers,

R.



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