Re: BASIC-like Lua variant
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- Subject: Re: BASIC-like Lua variant
- From: "Joseph Manning" <manning@...>
- Date: 2014年1月16日 17:40:11 +0000
On 2014-Jan-16 (Thu) at 06:44 (-0600), Andrew Starks wrote:
>> Lua seemed like stupid, slow C to him then. Now, a good day involves
>> deleting hundreds of line of C and replacing it with Lua. The line count is
>> usually about a third.
Andrew,
Perhaps drifting somewhat OT regarding BASIC, but doing line-counts
for text-based file managers gave the following [1] :
Name Language Files Lines
---- -------- ----- ------
FDclone C 102 94,586
Midnight Commander C 325 92,228
vfu C 56 14,948
ytree C 58 13,970
vifm C 40 9,010
CFM Lua 1 718
CFM, written in Lua, has 14 times fewer lines than the next smallest,
and 132 times fewer lines than the largest.
Granted, it's a bit apples-and-oranges here, as CFM lacks many of the
( rarely-used? ) features of some of the others, but it does manage
to provide all(?) the core functionality expected in a file manager.
[1] http://www.lua.org/wshop13.html#Manning
Joseph
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Joseph Manning / Computer Science / UCC Cork Ireland / manning@cs.ucc.ie
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