Re: Language comparison

[Philippe Lhoste <PhiLho@...>]

Philippe Lhoste wrote:
> Just a quick word to say I have updated the Language Comparisons section 
> of the LuaLinks page on the Wiki.
> http://lua-users.org/wiki/LuaLinks
>
> I used the various links found on the pages cross-referencing themselves...
> If you know any other similar page, including those *not* listing Lua, 
> please update this section.
> There is two sites to contribute to, as they have no Lua entry. If the 
> authors still maintain them, that is...
>
> Note that Roberto and Luis contributed to a number of such sites. This 
> is good to spread the knowledge of Lua...

On the Quine page <http://www.nyx.net/~gthompso/quine.htm>, Roberto 
contributed the entry for Lua:

y = [[ print("y = [[" .. y .. "]]\ndostring(y)") ]]
dostring(y)

Very nice and clean, compared to most C quines for example...
But obviously, it is for an old version of Lua (4.0, perhaps even 3.2) 
since "dostring" isn't defined in Lua 5.0.

So I did a quick update for Lua 5.0, which I will submit:

y = [[ print("y = [[" .. y .. "]]\nloadstring(y)()") ]]
loadstring(y)()

Some languages like C or Java have dozens of entries, so I thought: why 
not users of the Lua communauty doesn't contribute more quines?

I suggest you send them here, I will collect them and send them at once 
(but of course you can send them separately if you want).

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