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From: Stephen Bash <bash@genarts.com>
To: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/3] git log --pretty=lua
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 09:49:15 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1236918118.55838.1348580955644.JavaMail.root@genarts.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACsJy8Bs4P7R7m7uAqHYdmrXJA1RQmuoC7ybJFHWhW=efffQyw@mail.gmail.com>

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy" <pclouds@gmail.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2012 7:22:49 AM
> Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/3] git log --pretty=lua
> 
> On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 7:23 AM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> > We've talked off and on about extending the --pretty=format
> > specifiers to something more flexible. There's also been talk
> > recently of more flexible commit-filtering (e.g., grepping
> > individual notes).  Rather than invent a new Turing-complete
> > language, I thought I'd try building on somebody else's work by
> > embedding an existing language.
> >
> > Why Lua? I don't especially like it as a language. But it's designed
> > for this purpose, which makes it very lightweight and relatively
> > simple to embed.
> 
> Personally I'd prefer a Scheme variant.

Scheme only brings up bad memories for me ;)  And while we use Lua at
$dayjob, I, like Peff, am not a huge fan of the syntax.  So turning to
the internet to solve my problem, a quick Google search for embeddable
scripting languages (assuming the heavyweights like Perl and Python are
already out) produces Lua, JavaScript or specifically SpiderMonkey [1]
(yay buzzword compliance!), Ch [2] (unfortunately closed source), and
AngelScript [3].

>From a brief read of the webpage, AngelScript looks pretty interesting.
I'm much better with (and thus preferential to) Python and Perl myself,
but I can understand anyone's reservation in bundling/depending on
libraries of that size.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/SpiderMonkey
[2] http://www.softintegration.com/
[3] http://angelcode.com/angelscript/

Thanks,
Stephen

  reply	other threads:[~2012-09-25 13:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-25  0:23 [RFC/PATCH 0/3] git log --pretty=lua Jeff King
2012-09-25  0:24 ` [PATCH 1/3] pretty: make some commit-parsing helpers more public Jeff King
2012-09-25  0:25 ` [PATCH 2/3] add basic lua infrastructure Jeff King
2012-09-25  1:55   ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2012-09-25  4:53     ` Jeff King
2012-09-25  3:21   ` Robin H. Johnson
2012-09-25  3:42     ` Jeff King
2012-09-25 21:18       ` Junio C Hamano
2012-09-25  0:25 ` [PATCH 3/3] add a "lua" pretty format Jeff King
2012-10-06 17:33   ` Jeff King
2012-09-25 11:22 ` [RFC/PATCH 0/3] git log --pretty=lua Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2012-09-25 13:49   ` Stephen Bash [this message]
2012-09-25 15:19 ` Matthieu Moy
2012-09-25 16:40   ` Junio C Hamano
2012-09-30  4:31 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy

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