Re: on Perl

Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> writes:

On 2024-04-16, David W. Hodgins <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:

Any linux distribution that supports use of rpm packages supports using lua as
the scripting language for package installations and removals.
https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/rpmlua.8.html

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Oh, right, FreeBSD's pkg(8) also supports that:
https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pkg-lua-script
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Which brings us back to the very start of this thread: Is Lua a
"scripting" language or a "programming" language?

I thought the conclusion of this thread is that there's no clear
distinction.

It's both.

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