[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: [PATCH] Be more liberal in supported libavcodec aspect ratio configuration.

[Herman Tamas]

On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 11:06:21 -0500
D Richard Felker III <dalias at aerifal.cx> wrote:
> What a horrid choice for an extension language. Next time try lua. But
> anyway this does not seem to belong in mplayer.
lua, scheme & the like r just "convenience packages" over the
essential ideas of 4th. as such, the r much more complex. so i
wouldnt play w them. tho lua seems pretty compact. its not a bad idea.
but it look more like a programming lang, not like forth, what can
remind any1 much more 2 anything ranging from english prose (natural
lang) through a commandline to an object oriented program...
so forth is much simpler & its not beyond any1s comprehesion limits
ithink... => easier 2 implement, easier 2 understand, tho its more
difficult 2 write nice programs in it requires a lil bit different
methodology than the usual programming paradigmas. so, in fact, its
more difficult 4 a programmer 2 use but not 4 a generic humanoid
carbon unit. ibelieve so @least...

ref: http://www.lua.org/history.html (look 4 the word forth)