Re: Lua's opportunity

[Norman Ramsey <nr@...>]

 > I think it would be wonderful if the 
 > community would select and bless certain libraries as standard. Make 
 > them available for the various platforms compiled and ready to use.
 > ...
 > What do the long time Lua users think? 

Yes, yes, yes!  Debian packages!!

(Also, it would help to have some sort of 'luadoc' to make libraries
self-documenting.) 

I'm hoping some or all of the Lua team will be at San Diego for HOPL
(History of Programming Languages) in June.  This would be a great
time for a BOF (Birds of a Feather) session on libraries.
I am probably not the right man to organize it, since I am chairing
ICFP this year, for which my obligations run through June 6.
But I would be very pleased to participate.


Norman