Em 30-09-2012 00:35, Pedro Bessa escreveu:
Em 15-08-2012 03:40, Benjamin Smedberg escreveu:
On 8/15/2012 2:24 AM, Pedro Bessa wrote:
Ian,
Mozilla,
I thought all fast functional programming languages were
Lisp dialects, but that's not true and you can use other fast
functional programming languages, but now that you said
Rust, I think the programming language that you should use
must be ready for prime time, in other words, not alpha, so
Rust can't be used.
Pedro, are you trolling or serious? We are designing Rust to meet our
specific needs for a functional programming language because none of
the existing languages were suitable candidates, especially about
native compiled speed, C interop, and strong typesafety.
Rewriting our codebase in a functional language is not a short-term
operation: it's worth doing right.
--BDS
Hi,
Lua is good in native compiled speed and C interop. Lua
has closures, prototypal OO, modules and I never heard
complaints about Lua's modules. I think you don't need
traditional OO, but If you experiment with no traditional
OO and it fails, Lua lets you have traditional OO and
choose between single or multiple inheritance.
Mozilla wants many more contributors to the Firefox
source code and Lua is like Javascript, so add-on authors
would find Lua source code familiar, so you can turn your
very many add-on authors into very many contributors to
the Firefox source code.
You should start writing Lua code, stop writing C++ code
and when your internal pressure makes you feel like
rewriting old C++ code in Lua, just do it.
The official C book is short. An official Lua book is short too
and the other official Lua book is a reference manual. If
you curious about Lua's art with OO, you can download or
buy Programming in Lua and Lua Reference Manual from
http://www.lua.org/docs.html
Best regards,
Pedro Bessa
*You should experiment with no traditional OO
by making a policy to not use traditional OO.
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