[Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>]

LEGO wrote:
> I'm thinking in writing a library to give Lua some of the semantics behind MATE.
>   
Sounds reasonable, preventing a lua developer from reinventing the wheel ...
> Other more generic parts will be released indipendently of ethereal
> with a more appropriate licence (LGPL or MIT), as the GPL makes most
> libraries unusable in practice.
>   
... for some commercial purposes, I agree with you.
> at that point MATE would make no sense, although MATE will always be
> faster than Lua (which itself turns out to be about 4x faster than
> python and perl).
>   
Well, there's no reason that some parts of the scripting functionality 
couldn't be implemented in plain C for performance reasons.

Ok, I know that's not always possible for semantic / modeling / 
practical reasons.

Regards, ULFL