Re: Lua For PalmOS Alpha2 released

[Philippe Lhoste <PhiLho@...>]

José dos Santos Machado wrote:
> We've just release Lua For PalmOS alpha 2. You can download/see it at
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/luapalmos.

Good, if even I have a PalmOS thingie, I will remember this :-)

> Bad Things:
> 	- PalmOS MathLib does not have a rand() or srand() function. If you have
> one, MIT licesend, please send to us, so we can add it to the port.

I believe the Meresnne Twister 
<http://www.math.sci.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/~m-mat/MT/emt.html> was 
implemented in Lua or in C with Lua interface. Maybe this is an overkill 
for the PalmOS (I don't know if the implementation is really big or slow 
or memory hungry. They say it is as fast as rand(), and consumes 624 
words of workplace, probably because it generates 624 numbers at each 
iteration) but it is a robust random number generator, and now with a 
very liberal licence 
<http://www.math.sci.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/~m-mat/MT/MT2002/elicense.html> 
(basically: you can do anything with it. Elsewhere, they say it is a 
BSD-like licence).

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