From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,a8559e2a4f1dbe07,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-09-21 16:32:14 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!proxad.net!proxad.net!newspeer1-gui.server.ntli.net!ntli.net!newsfep4-glfd.server.ntli.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: chris User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030903 Thunderbird/0.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: [Ann] Ada 95 binding to Lua 5.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <2yqbb.1372$jJ3.21947@newsfep4-glfd.server.ntli.net> Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 00:36:50 +0100 NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.98.236.164 X-Complaints-To: abuse@ntlworld.com X-Trace: newsfep4-glfd.server.ntli.net 1064187134 81.98.236.164 (Mon, 22 Sep 2003 00:32:14 BST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 00:32:14 BST Organization: ntl Cablemodem News Service Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:42729 Date: 2003-09-22T00:36:50+01:00 List-Id: Hi all, I am pleased to announce the release of a portable binding to the Lua 5.0 programming api. Lua allows software developers to provide tailored scripting and extension facilities in their applications with a simple yet powerful programming API at virtually no cost (Lua is licensed under the terms of the MIT license). Now Ada 95 developers on a wide range of platforms can utilise Lua in their applications under the same terms as the Lua software (yes, that's right! It is licensed under the MIT license too). A few days ago a highly experimental and featureless version of the binding was released, but with todays release (version 0.1) the binding includes most of the functionality of the C programmers API. Notable exceptions are the debugging API and the operations on "user data" as defined by Lua. These are pencilled in for 0.3/0.5 (hopefully soon). This release includes: - bindings to substantial portion of the api - two example programs adapted from the lua book 1. a simple command line interpreter 2. an example of using lua for configuring applications - a first attempt at a user manual Future releases will include: - binding to the debugging api - "user data" facilities - binding to libaux facilities - example utilising Lua & AdaOpenGL - better documentation The binding can be found at www.cyberdanx.co.uk/ada95/lua.html Don't hesitate to email danx at cyberdanx dot co dot uk with queries, bug reports, patches, advice and suggestions! Enjoy! Chris