[CMake] CMake with Lua Experiment

Brandon Van Every bvanevery at gmail.com
Tue Nov 27 16:08:16 EST 2007


On Nov 27, 2007 3:50 PM, Juan Sanchez <Juan.Sanchez at amd.com> wrote:
> The goal of course is to have a language which is well documented,

Yep.

> popular,

Or at least not unpopular.  There's a perception that TCL has "lost"
the scripting wars.

> self-consistent,

Yep.

> and not home-made.

Well, there are quality and maintenance tradeoffs here.  Someone
else's language ain't that great if it's a PITA to use.

> if Lua takes off, it will be much better than what we have now.

I'm not convinced.  I'd like to see an acutal Lua build system, to get
an idea just how many quotes and unpack() statements I'd likely be
typing.  Googling...


Cheers,
Brandon Van Every


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