Hi. Found strange that there's no mention of Lua in devel list,
tracker, or support list, so I'll bring this up here, sorta like a
feature request.

Pros to pl/Lua:
- Lua is *designed* for embedding, so its binding API gotta be clean
and stable (people like Adobe and Blizzard already bet on it).
- it's aligned to firebird's major design philosophy points:
fast(1a, 1b) and small(2).
- it's only data structure is the table-- that says a lot.
- it's arguably closer to lisp in expressiveness power than to php,
python or perl.

Cons:
- not a mainstream language unfortunately, so limited user target
(but advanced features always have a limited target, and that doesn't
diminish their importance, and besides, I think firebird users are
well into the league).
- you won't be getting any fancy libraries like you get with java.
- anything else? please comment.

Arguments:

(propaganda)
http://torch5.sourceforge.net/manual/Lua-1.html
http://www.lua.org/about.html

(1a)http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/lua.php

(1b)http://www.timestretch.com/FractalBenchmark.html

(2)"Lua is only 17000 lines of C code. Under Linux, the Lua
interpreter built with all standard Lua libraries takes 153K and the
Lua library takes 203K"