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Can you code in Lua?
« on: April 14, 2011, 04:10:47 am »
In response to the recent news that the NSpire OS 3.0 can be programmed using Lua, a new subforum was created aimed at Lua Language.

I'd like to know who of you know Lua, like me :) I learnt Lua a few months ago, but haven't coded a lot of programs, it was more just learning.
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Re: Can you code in Lua?
« Reply #1 on: April 14, 2011, 04:16:38 am »
I haven't programmed in it yet, but it looks easy to me.
I'm sure that most people will not have an problem using it.
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Re: Can you code in Lua?
« Reply #2 on: April 14, 2011, 04:18:06 am »
Quote from: jimbauwens on April 14, 2011, 04:16:38 am
I haven't programmed in it yet, but it looks easy to me.
I'm sure that most people will not have an problem using it.

It's interpreted, just like python, in fact, python, lua and ruby are quite similar.
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Re: Can you code in Lua?
« Reply #3 on: April 14, 2011, 08:52:44 am »
I know CAML, Python and many other languages, so theire is nothing new for me in lua, except a new Lego game to assemble object and recursivity. =)
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Re: Can you code in Lua?
« Reply #4 on: April 14, 2011, 08:57:02 am »
I voted 'No, will learn'. But its actualy 'No, maybe will learn'.
I am not busy on the nspire. Jim just bought one today(for himself) and I'm busy with myst...
But if I start going on the nspire I feel I have to learn lua before I can program 'something good'.
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Re: Can you code in Lua?
« Reply #5 on: April 14, 2011, 09:00:09 am »
I've programmed some World of Warcraft addons (which are done in LUA) so I'm not bad :)
But it's been quite a while and I'll dive into it again !
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Re: Can you code in Lua?
« Reply #6 on: April 14, 2011, 09:59:34 am »
I accidentally voted no, but will learn. I meant to vote no, and will not learn. I really have no reason to learn LUA as i don't own or program for the Nspire.
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Re: Can you code in Lua?
« Reply #7 on: April 14, 2011, 10:54:14 am »
Quote from: Art_of_camelot on April 14, 2011, 09:59:34 am
I accidentally voted no, but will learn. I meant to vote no, and will not learn. I really have no reason to learn LUA as i don't own or program for the Nspire.

I think you can change your vote, though.
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Re: Can you code in Lua?
« Reply #8 on: April 14, 2011, 11:22:28 am »
Yes I learned it last year. it is a very easy language to get started with. But I will not be coding the Nspire with it  :P
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Re: Can you code in Lua?
« Reply #9 on: April 14, 2011, 11:30:47 am »
I'll never use it, but knowing myself, I'll want to try something with it so I'll learn the language, then get bored and never touch it again :P
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Re: Can you code in Lua?
« Reply #10 on: April 14, 2011, 01:21:50 pm »
I know Lua extremely well :)  It's actually a very powerful language for an interpreter, and I like it much more than python, because of stright out OOP, it has a much simpler table system -- it can be a pain for some applications, but for others it saves some programming time, and helps you think of the object easier :)
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Re: Can you code in Lua?
« Reply #11 on: April 14, 2011, 03:11:31 pm »
Quote from: Ashbad on April 14, 2011, 01:21:50 pm
I know Lua extremely well :)  It's actually a very powerful language for an interpreter, and I like it much more than python, because of stright out OOP, it has a much simpler table system -- it can be a pain for some applications, but for others it saves some programming time, and helps you think of the object easier :)

I don't wanna discuss this, but Python's OOP is better than Lua's.
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Re: Can you code in Lua?
« Reply #12 on: April 14, 2011, 03:21:33 pm »
In your opinion. Please let us discuss Lua here. (No offense)
I think OOP is way to complicated for calcs.
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Re: Can you code in Lua?
« Reply #13 on: April 14, 2011, 03:25:50 pm »
Quote from: Scout on April 14, 2011, 03:11:31 pm
Quote from: Ashbad on April 14, 2011, 01:21:50 pm
I know Lua extremely well :)  It's actually a very powerful language for an interpreter, and I like it much more than python, because of stright out OOP, it has a much simpler table system -- it can be a pain for some applications, but for others it saves some programming time, and helps you think of the object easier :)

I don't wanna discuss this, but Python's OOP is better than Lua's.

Lua really doesn't really even have OOP -- it just can group methods and variables and other tables into a table, which can somewhat represent an object ;)
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Re: Can you code in Lua?
« Reply #14 on: April 14, 2011, 03:46:55 pm »
Nobody has thought about the fact that the entire TI OS could be coded in Lua ?
Look:
 - TI was really fast to implement this Lua interpreter (since 05/2010)
 - Same Way of programming, Lua's objects and "toto.a, toto.b, toto.c etc .." variables, math.eval("DelVar "..varname) and expr("DelVar "&varname)
 - Same way of TNS structure, in the XML files, we've got "<gg:VAR></gg:VAR>" token for the widget variables, in the Lua's interpreted method we've got the "gc:" object

Thus, only one question : Can Lua be compiled ? or just directly interpreded by the ARM core ?
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