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

Re: Tao Scripting Language 0.8.5 beta released!

2005-01-27 Thread Limin Fu
Dear Claudio, Thank you for your kind testing, suggestions and encourages. I'm glad that you like it. For that problem in the Lexer, it can be corrected without increasing the size. I will do it soon. Best regards, Limin On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 15:32:13 -, Claudio Grondi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Tao Scripting Language 0.8.5 beta released!

2005-01-27 Thread Claudio Grondi
Dear Limin, Tao Script with its 300 KByte of code is so small, that one just must love it forgiving all its baby troubles. After changes (see below) to the code in taoModule.cpp necessary because my compiler claimed repeated definition of 'ref' e.g. in the section: if(TaoReference *ref2a=inNameSp

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