Mercurial Hosting > luan
changeset 1646:1828ed4ee75d
improve why.html
| author | Franklin Schmidt <fschmidt@gmail.com> |
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| date | Wed, 09 Mar 2022 15:40:12 -0700 |
| parents | 0af6a9d6d12f |
| children | 7eddf1e990c0 |
| files | website/src/scripting.pdf website/src/why.html |
| diffstat | 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/website/src/why.html Thu Mar 03 22:41:07 2022 -0700 +++ b/website/src/why.html Wed Mar 09 15:40:12 2022 -0700 @@ -14,7 +14,9 @@ <h1>Why Luan?</h1> - <p>Luan is designed for simplicity and readability. It rejects the complexity of modern software. It is mature software that I have been using for years for web programming. Whether Luan will appeal to you depends on who you are. So I will address different groups of people.</p> + <p>Luan is designed for simplicity and readability. What makes its extreme simplicity possible is that it is a pure scripting language as Ousterhout envisioned in his paper <a href="scripting.pdf">Scripting: Higher Level Programming for the 21st Century</a> (1998). Luan is tightly coupled with Java, with Luan for scripting (writing applications) and Java for writing libraries. Compare this to a language like Python. While Python is a nice language, it is optimal neither for scripting nor for writing libraries. Python sits in the middle as a compromise. Ousterhout's vision is to use the optimal tool for each task. Luan is an uncompromising scripting language while Java is ideal for writing libraries.</p> + + <p>Luan rejects the complexity of modern software. It is mature software that I have been using for years for web programming. Whether Luan will appeal to you depends on who you are. So I will address different groups of people.</p> <h2>For Moderns</h2>