Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Generic Dissector

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Nov 12, 2008, at 2:01 PM, Jaap Keuter wrote:

> How does this compare to LUA?

1) it works even if Wireshark isn't built with Lua

2) more importantly, it's a *descriptive* language, not an  
*imperative* language - you don't write code to dissect the packet,  
you write a description of what the packets look like, so presumably  
it's easier to write and harder to get wrong.