Re: ANN: Tao Scripting Language 0.8.5 beta released!

2005-01-28 Thread Limin Fu
I should admit I only read a little bit very simple introductions of Lua, so I can't answer you question exactly now. Maybe you can found the answer by yourself by spending some minutes to read the brief documentation of Tao. Depending how much time I have, probably I will make a comparison betwee

Re: ANN: Tao Scripting Language 0.8.5 beta released!

2005-01-27 Thread PA
On Jan 27, 2005, at 23:42, Limin Fu wrote: at that time I didn't heard about Lua. I knew it about 2 or 3 months after I began to implement Tao. So, compared to Lua for example, what does Tao brings to the table that you found worthwhile? Cheers -- PA, Onnay Equitursay http://alt.textdrive.com/ --

Re: ANN: Tao Scripting Language 0.8.5 beta released!

2005-01-27 Thread Limin Fu
I only looked at languages which are more often used in bioinformatics, at that time I didn't heard about Lua. I knew it about 2 or 3 months after I began to implement Tao. For Io, this is my first time to hear about it :) Cheers, Limin On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 23:02:45 +0100, PA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: ANN: Tao Scripting Language 0.8.5 beta released!

2005-01-27 Thread PA
On Jan 27, 2005, at 22:54, Limin Fu wrote: I found that, a language with simple syntax, convenient text processing functionality, powerful numeric computation capability, and simple C/C++ interfaces would be very useful You bet. Have you looked at Lua? http://www.lua.org/about.html Or perhaps Io? h

Re: ANN: Tao Scripting Language 0.8.5 beta released!

2005-01-27 Thread Limin Fu
> Since you chose to announce it in this mailing list/newsgroup, may I > suggest that a comparison with Python is in order? > To make a reasonable comparison with Python, I need to spend more time to investigate into python, since so far I only know some basic things in Python :-). But I can ensu

Re: ANN: Tao Scripting Language 0.8.5 beta released!

2005-01-27 Thread Rocco Moretti
Limin Fu wrote: Dear all, I am glad to announce in this mailing list that the lastest version of a new scripting language has come out. Since you chose to announce it in this mailing list/newsgroup, may I suggest that a comparison with Python is in order? Since it is a new scripting language, I'm

ANN: Tao Scripting Language 0.8.5 beta released!

2005-01-27 Thread Limin Fu
Dear all, I am glad to announce in this mailing list that the lastest version of a new scripting language has come out. Welcome to try it out. Comments are welcome. Suggestions are appreciated. === Here are some details: === Design Goals: 1. Simple and