Re: [SLUG] Lua programming language

From: Jonathan Brown (jbssfl@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Jan 29 2009 - 01:23:24 EST


For instance, Awesomewm uses Lua for its config.

Here's my awesomewm rc.lua on my archbox:

http://rafb.net/p/K9aEfb82.html

--- On Wed, 1/28/09, Paul Bransford <draeath@gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Paul Bransford <draeath@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [SLUG] Lua programming language
> To: slug@nks.net
> Date: Wednesday, January 28, 2009, 10:43 PM
> It's primary use is as an embedded scripting language.
>
> Games tend to use it a lot - code the engine and bare-metal
> stuff in
> something like C, and do all the game stuff in Lua.
>
> On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 22:28 -0500, William Coulter wrote:
> > I ran into it the other day and went this is cool.
> Now what can I do
> > with it? What do you use it for?
> >
> > William
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 10:06 PM, Dylan William
> Hardison
> > <dylan@hardison.net> wrote:
> > Spake William Coulter on Wednesday, January
> 28, 2009 at
> > 08:12PM -0500:
> > > Has anyone heard of Lua before?
> > >
> >
> >
> > I have! Actually, I gave a talk about Lua at
> perl-oasis the
> > weekend before last.
> >
> > It's a cute little language.
> >
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