On 23 August 2012 10:38, Tei <oscar.vives(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I read this mail-list for pure entertainment. I am
trying to imagine
what cool things lua will allow. But seems more a improvement of
speed. Speed will allow cool things to happen. So is more like a
indirect improvement (and probably a huge one). Speed is sexy but not
much entertaining at first, seems a enabler.
Speed is secondary. The main thing is that Lua is actually designed to
be a usable programming language, whereas ParserFunctions is a Turing
tarpit, only accidentally Turing-complete, in which "everything is
possible but nothing of interest is easy." [1] Complicated
ParserFunctions templates look like several days' Daily WTF [2]
because of this.
Even if there were no speed improvement, it would be a vast
improvement just in programmability. (Though that would mean much more
use of programmatic templates, so in practice we need speed too.)
- d.
[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_tarpit
[2]
http://thedailywtf.com/