someone please implement a lua language

[Andy Wingo]

Hello.

Lua gets a fair amount of press, and is fine in its way. People like it
for the same reason that people liked Tcl: Lua is simple, embeddable,
and has the mainstream, Algol-like syntax. Also, it has a reasonably
fast implementation.

That's cool! It would be interesting to enhance Lua with the rich
runtime of Guile -- all of POSIX, pthreads, and all of Guile's excellent
libraries.

Lua is *really* simple. See http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#8.
Does someone want to write a simple Lua parser (ideally finding an EBNF
parser first) and compile that to GHIL? That would be a great project.

Andy
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