Re: on Perl

On 18/04/2024 17:10, candycanearter07 wrote:

David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> wrote at 09:30 this Wednesday (GMT):

On 16/04/2024 16:49, Muttley@dastardlyhq.com wrote:

On Tue, 16 Apr 2024 10:58:49 -0000 (UTC)
Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> wrote:

the FreeBSD boot loader, another constrained environment.  In the
end Forth proved too unpopular, few people touched it, and it is
being replaced with Lua now.

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So moving from one language hardly anyone uses to another that hardly anyone
uses. You can't deny the consistency.
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Lots of people use Lua.  It is very popular as a small scripting
language, and as a language embedded in other programs - you only need
two or three C source files linked into your code to make Lua available,
and it's quite easy to expose C functions as Lua functions.
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It is extremely popular in gaming - including for player scripting in
Minecraft.

  Minecraft supports player scripting?

I am no Minecraft expert.  You might need an add-on, or special mode, or something, to get access to Lua scripting.