Re: [Caml-list] Config_file : first release

[brogoff <brogoff@speakeasy.net>]

On Sun, 22 Nov 2004, skaller wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 05:05, brogoff wrote:
> >  I'm currently trying to decide between Scheme and Lua for this task.
>
> Ville-Pertti Keinonen wrote a Scheme interpreter with BSD licence
> in Ocaml. I integrated it into Felix in a few minutes.
>
> Download URL http://will.iki.fi/software/ocs/
> Author Ville-Pertti Keinonen <will@exomi.com>

Thanks, I already knew of it, and it is my first choice among Schemes.

> I guess Ocaml written Scheme is better for Ocaml than Lua,
> they use Ocaml GC and pure Ocaml source, and Scheme has
> a standards document, whereas Lua is C and less stable.

It ain't what you know that hurts you, its what you know that ain't so!

You are wrong about Lua-ML. Please visit the C-- web site, read the
papers, buy the T-shirt, etc.  I'm pretty tempted to go with Lua, because
the people who'll be writing the config files for my program aren't
programmers and Lua may have more palatable syntax.

-- Brian