Re: [Freedos-user] Catch-all Repository for legacy DOS software

On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 5:45 AM, dmccunney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 7:44 PM, Alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 12:58 AM, Marco Achury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> El 02/04/2012 03:35 p.m., dmccunney escribió:
>>
>>> But is easier to learn how to write DOS programs than Windows or Linux
>>> programs.
>>> DOS is a great OS to introduce programming.
>>>
>>> A simple programming language as Qbasic or Euphoria give you near
>>> total control over your hardware and OS functions.
>>
>> And don't forget Lua. It's very simple and quite powerful at the same
>> time. An excellent language indeed.
>
> But it's specifically intended for embedding within other programs as
> a script language.  (There  are an assortment of text editors (like
> SciTE) that embed Lua in that fashion.  You don't write stand-alone
> apps in it.

True, Lua is optimized for being embedded, but you can also write
stand-alone applications. There are lots of extension modules that
give you lots of functionality for everything.

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