One more thing about Io and Lua comparison

["Ashish Ranjan" <ashishwave@...>]

Some time back i saw the mention of Io language available on 
iolanguage.com, and i compared it for a short time.
  Though io compiles in cygwin on windows, but it does NOT compiles 
on mingw+msys. Whereas lua compiles on mingw+msys( Though i am not 
able to compile lua with some features,such as dynamic loading etc. 
turned on on the mingw). So lua is compilable with gnu compilers to 
produce native exe on windows,whereas io is not. So it makes sense 
for me to stick with lua.
 But i will like to say, that many libraries available for io, such 
as curses,regex,xml etc. should also be available in lua some day. 
And socket,sql libraries of lua4.x should be ported to lua5 as soon 
as possible. There SHOULD BE AN OFFICIAL and MATURE WAY OF 
interaction of lua with c++, rather than everyone taking out his own 
library for a repititive and unaviodable task of interaction of C++ 
methods with lua.These learnings from other scripting languages 
apart from introspection will take lua to another milestone.

ONE MORE QUESTION APART FROM ABOVE TOPIC: i want to do fltk gui 
program scripting in lua (and as fltk and lua both compile on mingw, 
linux and cygwin all) in some portable way on mingw,linux and 
cygwin. Is there some fltk binding for lua 5 available, so that i 
can capture events in and out lua 5 acripts and fltk.