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t99
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Hi everyone!! anybody tried to compile Lua for Nspire?
Lua interpreter only need a simple C complier so I imagine it could be done remarkably easily ?
I'm not a developer myself so could someone help me?  |
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apcalc
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To be honest, I never heard of Lua before this, so I can't really give an exact answer to this, but I would suspect that this would be harder than it sounds because we are still missing some important C standard library functions for the Nspire.
Right now, porting any "C" program to the Nspire is not the easiest thing to do. |
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t99
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Lua is a fast, light weight script language. The entire interpreter is only like 400KB. So I think it would be nice to get it running on Nspire.
http://www.lua.org/
PS: Lua runs on HP-50g which only has 512k of ram |
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bwang
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As apcalc said, most of the standard library is still missing on the Nspire, so there is no chance of a port at the moment.
It does look like it is written in very standard C, so it won't be too hard to port.
The question is, why would we want Lua on the Nspire? As a stand-alone language, what is it good at? It seems to me that Lua is usually used as the embedded scripting language in larger applications. |
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AHBAD_ALVIN
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bwang wrote:
As apcalc said, most of the standard library is still missing on the Nspire, so there is no chance of a port at the moment.
It does look like it is written in very standard C, so it won't be too hard to port.
The question is, why would we want Lua on the Nspire? As a stand-alone language, what is it good at? It seems to me that Lua is usually used as the embedded scripting language in larger applications.
I agree. I actually know Lua VERY well (almost as good as c/c++ and c#) and I can tell you it's actually not as good syntax wise, and C is much more useful. Plus, you would have the difficult job of converting all of the libraries. So unless you want to take it on as a project, which might be very hard and not that fruitful, you will probably have to wait a while. |
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ExtendeD
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bwang wrote:
The question is, why would we want Lua on the Nspire? As a stand-alone language, what is it good at? It seems to me that Lua is usually used as the embedded scripting language in larger applications.
Perhaps porting Lua might be easier than porting a C compiler. It would be a interesting alternative to the native TI-Nspire programming language.
And using an interpreted language for on-calc development would avoid many crashes compared to on-calc C/asm. |
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FloppusMaximus
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ASHBAD_ALVIN wrote:
I actually know Lua VERY well (almost as good as c/c++ and c#) and I can tell you it's actually not as good syntax wise, and C is much more useful.
C is certainly more powerful (in the shoot-yourself-in-the-foot kind of way), but high-level interpreted languages have their place. I wouldn't say either is more useful. And personally I think Lua's syntax is quite nice. |
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bwang
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| Python is a nice interpreted language, but I imagine it will be hard to port... |
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AHBAD_ALVIN
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calc84maniac
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| I thought Python was just standard C. We still probably don't have half the library functions we need for it, though. |
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AHBAD_ALVIN
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calc84maniac wrote:
I thought Python was just standard C. We still probably don't have half the library functions we need for it, though.
it is and it isn't -- Python has some OOP in it, so it does have some fancy bells and whistles as well. |
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calc84maniac
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ASHBAD_ALVIN wrote:
calc84maniac wrote:
I thought Python was just standard C. We still probably don't have half the library functions we need for it, though.
it is and it isn't -- Python has some OOP in it, so it does have some fancy bells and whistles as well.
I'm talking about the interpreter, not the Python language itself. Whether Python has some object-oriented features doesn't change that the interpreter is written in C (which is what is really important for a port to TI-Nspire) |
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AHBAD_ALVIN
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calc84maniac wrote:
ASHBAD_ALVIN wrote:
calc84maniac wrote:
I thought Python was just standard C. We still probably don't have half the library functions we need for it, though.
it is and it isn't -- Python has some OOP in it, so it does have some fancy bells and whistles as well.
I'm talking about the interpreter, not the Python language itself. Whether Python has some object-oriented features doesn't change that the interpreter is written in C (which is what is really important for a port to TI-Nspire)
Oh, I must have misread your last post. Sorry, I thought you meant the language was basically standard C. But yeah, it is made in standard C, I think. |
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xtjacob
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| It would be nice to get Perl on the Nspire. |
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ExtendeD
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| Starting with a port of as a simple scripting language from an implementation targeting embedded systems would really help to find which standard functions are needed and to make them available. |
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