Re: Constructive criticism
- Posted by kinz Mar 05, 2009
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Lua's first version was released in 1993. Lua is around 21,000 lines of remarkably well written Ansi C, so one ought to be able to compile it on DOS with Watcom.
Why do you say just about Lua again? Does Lua look like EU-system for you?
I'd like to hear about some conventional language which has same power
as EU-system.
Do you know something about a DOS32 version of Lua etc etc etc?
But I don't know if I got your message right: Even if this part of EU's doc refers to 1993, it should be updated or removed. Personally, I don't see the point of advertising EU in section 2.3 between Language Definition and Declarations.
This section is good to me and tell user about main features of EU.
And EU has these features from 1993 as commercial product.
But if you like Lua so much,
the http://www.lua.org/versions.html#1.1 doc reads:
Lua 1.1 was released on 08 Jul 1994. This was the first public release of Lua and is described in a conference paper. Lua 1.1 already featured powerful data description constructs, simple syntax, and a bytecode virtual machine. Lua 1.1 was freely available for academic purposes; commercial uses had to be negotiated, but none ever were.
Do you see 1994, not 1993 as you say?
In 1994, Lua didn't have any chance to be a commercial product.
But in 1994, EU was 1 years old commercial product.
So, section 2.3 is good, it is one of the traditional Rob's sections.
Regards,
Igor Kachan
kinz@peterlink.ru
