26 Dec
2008
26 Dec
'08
6:04 p.m.
Mohamed Bana
why precisely was Lua chosen as the implementation language?/ ANT (ant is not TeX)/, see http://ant.berlios.de/ was registered: 2005-Nov-23 10:38. as far as i'm aware, dynamic languages are generally much slower than those that are statically typed.
Ant may be written in OCaml but the author himself pointed out recently that ant wasn't written for speed and isn't fast. It's designed, like luaTeX, to be easy to modify and extend (as long as you know OCaml and can recompile). It did include a scripting language before luaTeX :) but not a full-featured one.