Python, Perl, Lua or Guile for small-scale/glue scripting?

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Anonymous 03/25/15 (Wed) 23:22:26 c00301 No.1826

Anonymous 03/26/15 (Thu) 00:44:58 4735f8 No.1828

lua is love

lua is life

Anonymous 03/26/15 (Thu) 12:25:23 002ebf No.1834

>>1826
Depends.

Batteries included? Guile. No? Lua.

Just remember to never make something bigger than 1000 loc without a real compiled language.

Anonymous 03/26/15 (Thu) 13:36:35 000000 No.1836

Should all be fine for small stuff. Use which has useful libraries for use.

Anonymous 03/26/15 (Thu) 18:55:05 364678 No.1841

>>1834
Thanks, gonna go with dat Guile.

Anonymous 03/27/15 (Fri) 23:26:31 e0d6a1 No.1855

>>1826
Perl definitely. Perl does what you want it to do.

Anonymous 03/28/15 (Sat) 14:31:58 1d59ed No.1867

>>1855
>Perl definitely. Perl does what you want it to do.
Good thing you warned OP that other languages behave randomly.

Anonymous 03/29/15 (Sun) 01:03:55 40a228 No.1869

>>1834
1000 is a little bit too much IMO,
more like 100.

Anonymous 04/15/15 (Wed) 07:00:42 fd7d7d No.2067

>>1869
Both of you are fucking idiots.

Anonymous 04/16/15 (Thu) 21:23:43 930f59 No.2105

Python has a library for everything so I use that. I also like the forced indentation since it makes it easier to read someone else's code.

Anonymous 04/16/15 (Thu) 21:53:35 da934e No.2106

>>2067
Both of us is right, fagtron. Hand in your programmers license.

Anonymous 04/18/15 (Sat) 00:58:52 fa6d12 No.2121

In the situation you described
Guile > Lua > Perl > [power gap] > python

Anonymous 04/18/15 (Sat) 03:58:43 fa6d12 No.2125

>>2121
Actually, move the power gap to between perl and lua.

Perl and Python aren't really meant for this kind of thing.

Anonymous 04/18/15 (Sat) 05:02:00 bc7fbb No.2126

I don't see any point in ever using anythign but Lua or Javascript for scripting.

Anonymous 04/23/15 (Thu) 16:01:20 af0f23 No.2226

Perl is a poor man's Lisp/Scheme.

Anonymous 04/23/15 (Thu) 21:51:56 92d6bb No.2230

Python's great for all sorts of things, it's easy to write and easy to maintain.

Anonymous 06/18/15 (Thu) 21:04:43 33071d No.2635

I heard guile was a bit slow for an embeddable scheme

Anonymous 06/20/15 (Sat) 10:01:53 f0dbb9 No.2657

>implying he's a programmer

typedef Engineer<Software> Programmer;

typedef Technician<Software> Coder;