Re: lua default version

[David Holland <dholland-pkgtech%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Sun, Nov 01, 2015 at 05:54:28PM +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
 > > Current version is nearly a full screen. I'm going to change it to
 > > the up-to-date description from http://www.lua.org/about.html :
 > > 
 > >    Lua is a powerful, fast, lightweight, embeddable scripting language.
 > > 
 > >    Lua combines simple procedural syntax with powerful data description
 > >    constructs based on associative arrays and extensible semantics. Lua is
 > >    dynamically typed, runs by interpreting bytecode for a register-based
 > >    virtual machine, and has automatic memory management with incremental
 > >    garbage collection, making it ideal for configuration, scripting, and
 > >    rapid prototyping.
 > 
 > The use of Byte Code or that is the VM is register-based is completely
 > irrelevant.

Upstream apparently thinks it's important enough to put in their
blurb; why carp?

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David A. Holland
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