Re: Positioning a new lua distribution

[Martin Spernau <martin@...>]

Gabor Grothendieck wrote:

> Lua is even more powerful and elegant.  A Lua distribution which had a few built-in libraries which are aimed at text processing (e.g. HTML, XML) and possibly related areas (e.g. internet) might be attractive to those who use awk but are looking for something very easy to learn and use yet more powerful than awk.  

Very intersting point.

Well, LuaCheia might fit that hole. It will have PCRE (Perl compatible 
regex), Sockets and a binding to libsgml is planned.
LuaCheia strives to be even more complete than that, but its goal is 
also to be easily size-down to specific needs.

-Martin