Re: lua default version

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Mon, Nov 02, 2015 at 03:49:52AM +0000, David Holland wrote:
> 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?

Too many buzzwords already. The remaining ones seem to have at least
some relevance for someone asking what Lua could be useful for.

Joerg