Re: [Monotone-devel] Concern about LUA & suggestions for command line output

[Matthew A. Nicholson]

Joel Crisp wrote:
> Hi Guys
>
> Saw a message a few back about writing output formatters in LUA - the 
> place I'm currently working at is balking at Clearcase triggers in perl 
> since they can't get anyone with perl experience (!), and I've never 
> personally even met _anyone_ with LUA experience.
>
> Whilst LUA is a fine language and rapidly gaining acceptance in the 
> gaming world, I'd like to propose an alternate scripting API using (sic) 
> that PITA of a language Javascript, for the simple reasons that any web 
> programmer is going to know it, and also that the wscript scripting host 
> which ships with windows XP+ supports it; these two factors are likely 
> to make it more acceptable to the pointy haired ones despite it being a 
> complete dogs dinner of a language (although it does at least have some 
> reasonable regexp support). There are decent implementations (C, Java) 
> from Mozilla.

Not to slam JavaScript or any thing, or lua for that matter which seems to be 
vastly more powerful than javascript... What about python?  Now I know that 
bundling python with monotone is a no no (more reason to stick with lua), 
although it is already installed on most linux systems (but then monotone runs 
on windows to...).  But come on, I would go with python long before I even 
thought about javascript.

What's wrong with lua?


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Matthew A. Nicholson
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