From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 19 15:57:59 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 225F916A41A for ; Tue, 19 Feb 2008 15:57:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pieter@degoeje.nl) Received: from smtp.utwente.nl (unknown [IPv6:2001:610:1908:1000:204:23ff:feb5:7e66]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90A0B13C461 for ; Tue, 19 Feb 2008 15:57:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pieter@degoeje.nl) Received: from lux.student.utwente.nl (lux.student.utwente.nl [130.89.170.81]) by smtp.utwente.nl (8.12.10/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id m1JFvq3x016857; Tue, 19 Feb 2008 16:57:53 +0100 From: Pieter de Goeje To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, girishvenkatachalam@gmail.com Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 16:57:52 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <20080219142047.GB27411@dell1> <47BAE7BF.3060602@tundraware.com> <20080219145812.GB26569@saraswathy.madambakam.org> In-Reply-To: <20080219145812.GB26569@saraswathy.madambakam.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200802191657.52685.pieter@degoeje.nl> X-UTwente-MailScanner-Information: Scanned by MailScanner. Contact servicedesk@icts.utwente.nl for more information. X-UTwente-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-UTwente-MailScanner-From: pieter@degoeje.nl X-Spam-Status: No Cc: Subject: Re: thankee, thankee! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 15:57:59 -0000 On Tuesday 19 February 2008, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: > On 08:29:19 Feb 19, Tim Daneliuk wrote: > > You bet, Perl is terrific. But, Perl is also harder to maintain and > > less readable in the long run (IMHO and many others' too). Language > > wars are silly, of course, one uses the right tools for the right > > job. But as I said, having programmed fairly widely over the years, > > I find Python the single most productive language I've ever used. > > I never ceased to be amazed at how quickly I get to a correct and > > finished program. I am further amazed when I pick it up a year later > > and it still is crystal clear and understandable. > > Couldn't resist saying that I plan to take a stab at lua. It seems to be > a wonderfully agile and powerful language - the new kid off the block. It is indeed, however that power comes at a price. Especially when working with classes lua is more like a meta programming language. Also, lua lacks support for integer data types, as everything numeric is a double. Lua will excel as an addon language for scripting other programs. IMO writing complete standalone programs is better done with one of the more complete (library wise) languages like python, perl or java. > > :) > > http://www.lua.org > > However I do not have any experience with it to say anything further. > > Hopefully that will change one day soon. > > -Girish -- Pieter de Goeje