Re: The Lua Way or the Highway (was Re: LUTask)

[PA <petite.abeille@...>]

On Jan 30, 2005, at 16:08, Mark Hamburg wrote:

> > In other words, I'm trying to make sense of Lua in my own terms. It's 
> > a
> > learning experience first and foremost. When confronted with the
> > 'unknown' (1) (2), I naturally tend to fail back to what I know (3).
>
> This is fine as an approach. Lots of people do it. What one needs to
> remember is that having contorted the language to view it in terms of 
> (3),
> don't then reach the conclusion that the language is necessarily 
> contorted,
> inefficient, or whatever.

I'm not looking to reach any "conclusion" one way of another.

Just trying to keep up with some New Year resolutions:

http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/loty/

> Your LUObject implementation, for example, has a relatively high memory
> overhead. Don't allow that to color your thinking about Lua's intrinsic
> overhead.

Don't worry, I usually don't blame any given language for my own 
"contorted, inefficient, or whatever" concoctions :)

Cheers

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