[Dev-luatex] REQ: Please tell comp.text.tex why LuaTeX chose embed rather than extend.

[Jonathan Fine]

Hello Hans

Thank you for your prompt reply.

>> One of the participants asked: "What was the rationale behind choosing 
>> the embed route by the LuaTeX team?"
> 
> the motives for doing ot the way we do has been discussed in articles 
> and presentations several times the last couple of years so it makes no 
> sense to repeat that again

I'm sorry, Hans, but I've not been able to find the resources you refer 
to.  I've done an internet search
     http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=embed+extend+luatex
and I've not found anything yet.

Please would you supply URLs explain why the LuaTeX team chose to embed 
rather than extend.

> the reasons for choosing lua are (1) we like it, (2) it's small and 
> stable, (3) it does not add updating, huge libraries and depencies mess 
> to tex distributions, (4) it's fast, (5) it's made for this purpose

Ah, you may have misunderstood me.  Perhaps I was not clear enough.  My 
question is not why did you choose Lua, but why did you choose to embed 
rather than to extend.

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-- 
Jonathan