Re: A citation on Lua

["Andrew Wilson" <agrwagrw@...>]

I left a comment on the blog and tried to redirect the guy here, we'll see if he responds. Andrew

On 12/18/06, askok@dnainternet.net <askok@dnainternet.net> wrote:

I think for him lack of 'split' counts as a design flaw?

Anyways, it would be nice to get in touch with the person.

Unfortunately (or: fortunately?) his website gives 404:
http://ousfg.net/~archie

With 2 secs of Googling, he'd found:
http://lua-users.org/wiki/SplitJoin    :)

-asko


On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 10:24:10 +0100
  Philippe Lhoste <PhiLho@GMX.net> wrote:
> Somebody that goes against the flow... :-)
> "I've been working with Lua recently - can't say that I
>like it very much. It has some remarkably academic
>features for something that's used so commerically, but
>it's a complete pig to work with and it's hard not to sit
>and frown at the (in my opinion) ugly design."
>
> http://archiemaskill.blogspot.com/2006/08/string-splitting-in-lua.html
>
> He has the right to have an opinion, of course, but I
>regret he doesn't expand on what design flaws he found.
>Such out of the blue remark isn't useful / constructive /
>credible. Even less when written after a day of
>programming...
>
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