Re: os.setenv()???

[Lisa Parratt <lisa@...>]

On 8 Jan 2006, at 22:04, Ryanne Thomas Dolan wrote:
> Certainly there are two different paradigms.  I just think that a  
> thin API offers more power and performance, and allows the  
> community to develop simpler interfaces on top of the standard.   
> And though you say a high-level abstraction is simpler, I rather  
> use the functions I already am familiar with than learn a Lua- 
> specific abstraction that does the same thing.

Interpreted code will *always* be slower than native code. You can  
have power (expose the primitives) or performance (wrap function call  
sequences in single Lua functions), but I severely doubt you can have  
both.

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Lisa