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Re:Should Apache replace its current httpd.conf with Lua? by silentbicycle on Thursday September 10, 2009 @10:29AM (#815299)
http://people.apache.org/~rbowen/presentations/apacheconEU20...

Right, and it's a language with a brittle, inconsistently documented, largely ad hoc syntax. While Lua's syntax has its quirks (the syntax for lambdas is a little cumbersome, arrays are indexed from 1), that's because it is designed to be straightforward for simple use by non-programmers. The advanced features* don't get in the way if you're only using it as a log/config/etc. file format.

* Tail-call optimization, closures, coroutines, etc.

Re:Should Apache replace its current httpd.conf with Lua? by compay on Thursday September 10, 2009 @11:37AM (#815439)
Thank you, I was looking for a link to that presentation this morning and couldn't remember who had given it.