On 17-12-2010 4:20, Jonas Stein wrote:
i'd like to make a small presentation for friends about context. Why do we use lua and not python or perl or... Where can i find the features for lua for this job?
you can find arguments in presentations and articles and mk.pdf - nice language (pascal like, nu obscure $characters, tolerant spacing) - easy to learn and no complex concepts - good manual that covers all - mature when we started using it - small footprint and no truckload of libs to carry along (packaging tex is already enough work) - pretty fast and efficient - no feature creep, proper academic research project, tightly managed - it fits tex pretty well - designed with embedding in mind - most of all: we like it (I first ran into lua when I was playing with scite's extension mechanism and immediately thought of how nice it would be to have it in tex. Hartmut made the first variant that gave access to registers and provided printing to tex, then Taco stepped in and fundamental opening up started etc etc etc) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------