At 11:43 PM -0800 1/21/03, Paul Du Bois wrote:
The advantage of Lua (at least for my project, which is a game) is that it
is quite easy to embed, and quite easy to customize. The C API is small and
easily understandable (at the expense of being a little bit of a pain to
use), and the internals are simple and quite malleable. The language itself
is pretty ugly IMHO.
So... I can't think of a good purpose of Lua/Parrot myself. I'm not trying
to discourage you by any means! If I were to embed a Parrot interpreter for
our next game (!) I'd happily leave Lua behind.
Well, then, let's see what we can do to make parrot suitable for your needs. :)
> Only thing I need to know before I can start is: what would the purpose be
> of a Lua to Parrot compiler? Lua is originally an embedded language for
easy-scripting, as far as I understand. How could it be used when targeted
to parrot? Would it be possible to call functions written in Lua
(and which
are then compiled to parrot) from (for example) a python script?
(So: python
script calls function writtenin Lua and compiled to parrot).
Klaas-Jan
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