Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Re: [Ethereal-cvs] rev 17057: /trunk/plugins/lua/: Makefile.am packet-lua.c plugi

[LEGO <luis.ontanon@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 1/20/06, Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 05:18:58AM +0100, Ulf Lamping wrote:
> > I'm *very* pleased that you see the benefits of using a "standard"
> > scripting language for this task as this will have some obvious benefits.
>
> Well, one of the nice things about Ethereal is, that people can choose
> what to work on, and if he likes to use lua - fine. I'd have prefrerred
> perl or python myself, but I'm not doing the coding :)

I've prefered perl myself... but embeding perl is not easy at all.
Writing an epan wrapper for perl might had not been such a complex
task but then you could just use epan from perl but not enhance epan
with perl code.

As for python I do not like it, a purely personal thing that regards
mainly the use whitespace, I can understand why other people likes it,
I just don't. I can stand having to go back and fix a tab in a
Makefile once or twice a month, working with python that becomes my
personal nightmare every time.

> Also, some important projects liks enigma or addonthell are using lua ;.>

I think that's because lua is preety straightforward to get it into
the picture.

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