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From: David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no>
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Subject: Re: on Perl
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2024 21:55:13 +0200
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On 18/04/2024 17:10, candycanearter07 wrote:
> David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> wrote at 09:30 this Wednesday (GMT):
>> On 16/04/2024 16:49, Muttley@dastardlyhq.com wrote:
>>> On Tue, 16 Apr 2024 10:58:49 -0000 (UTC)
>>> Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> wrote:
>>>> the FreeBSD boot loader, another constrained environment.  In the
>>>> end Forth proved too unpopular, few people touched it, and it is
>>>> being replaced with Lua now.
>>>
>>> So moving from one language hardly anyone uses to another that hardly anyone
>>> uses. You can't deny the consistency.
>>>
>>
>> Lots of people use Lua.  It is very popular as a small scripting
>> language, and as a language embedded in other programs - you only need
>> two or three C source files linked into your code to make Lua available,
>> and it's quite easy to expose C functions as Lua functions.
>>
>> It is extremely popular in gaming - including for player scripting in
>> Minecraft.
> 
> 
> Minecraft supports player scripting?

I am no Minecraft expert.  You might need an add-on, or special mode, or 
something, to get access to Lua scripting.