Programming with Lua

[solutionguy]

Dear All,

Please post any Lua (www.lua.org) Programming resources you know about. I see this language as a very simple alternate to the heavyweights that proves to be quick, easy and effective for a sysadmin.

If you are new to Lua, do consult http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lua_programming_language before voting ....

Thanks.

[lambda]

If you are new to Lua, do consult http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lua_programming_language before voting ....

why before voting? your poll is about scripting languages of our choice. if someone hasn't used or heard of lua before voting, it's unlikely that they'll change their language of choice after reading the wiki page. i mean, language of choice implies something you actually use.

while lua is faster than some of the alternatives, its problem is that it doesn't have anything like this, or this (as far as i can tell). without a good set of ready-to-use modules (or libraries, or components, whatever you want to call them), you might have to do more work to solve a particular problem. for example, lua (at least, 5.0) doesn't have a regex implementation.

[solutionguy]

I agree with you about shortage of modules/libraries for Lua, but I can recall Python and Ruby also started out thin on these. Keeping in mind the comparative age of Lua, it might grow from that aspect in the years to come.

[lambda]

Keeping in mind the comparative age of Lua, it might grow from that aspect in the years to come.

that depends on whether it's a design goal or not. ruby started out the same year as lua, by the way. python's only two years older (1991).

[abdul_mateen]

I think you are surely mistaken C/C++ are not generally scripting languages but they are generally real world langauges and other langugaes such as Perl and Python are built onto ANSI C.

Well! I donot think you can call C/C++ scripting languages they have much called compiled languages scripting languages generally are interpreted one.


Python is the best scripting language really best easy to program and maintain.I am learning it and writing some of the adminstrative applications.

Correct me if I am wrong!

[lambda]

perl and python are also "real world languages". their runtimes do not need to be implemented on c, by the way (see jython, pypy and jruby as examples).

many scripting languages are also compiled. it all depends on their implementation. perl and python are compiled, ruby isn't (at present; this will change soon).

[abdul_mateen]

So that's mean that there is not much different between C/C++ and the scripting languages.