Re: [kvm-devel] [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] Add support for a configuration file

[Johannes Schindelin]

Hi,

On Wed, 14 May 2008, Javier Guerra wrote:

> What about Lua?  (http://www.lua.org)
> 
> it started up as a configuration language, and evolved into a full
> programming language, while remaining _very_ light (less than 200K
> with all libraries), and wonderfully easy to embed into C programs.

Okay, so much for the upsides.  Now for the downsides: a language that 
nearly nobody knows, for something that is not meant to be executed (think 
security implications).

Hth,
Dscho