Re: [kvm-devel] [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] Add support for a configuration file

[Johannes Schindelin]

Hi,

On Wed, 14 May 2008, Javier Guerra wrote:

> On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 10:13 AM, Johannes Schindelin
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> >  On Wed, 14 May 2008, Javier Guerra wrote:
> >  > What about Lua?  (http://www.lua.org)
> >  >
> >  > it started up as a configuration language, and evolved into a full
> >  > programming language, while remaining _very_ light (less than 200K
> >  > with all libraries), and wonderfully easy to embed into C programs.
> >
> >  Okay, so much for the upsides.  Now for the downsides: a language that
> >  nearly nobody knows, for something that is not meant to be executed (think
> >  security implications).
> 
> when embedded, you get to choose what libraries are available. there
> are several examples of fairly secure settings.

Why artificially make it complicated, and then have to take care of such 
issues?

That's like an ex-colleague of mine, who absolutely had to rewrite the 
database engine in-RAM, and when the application was too slow over modem 
(leeching in megabytes, where it got bytes from the SQL database before), 
he tried to force Windows Terminal Services, instead of reverting his 
change.

Simplicity is underrated.

Ciao,
Dscho