Introduction

Lua, Portuguese for "moon", is a lightweight multi-paradigm programming language designed as a scripting language with "extensible semantics" as a primary goal. Lua is cross-platform since it is written in ISO C. Lua has a relatively simple C API compared to other scripting languages.

Usage

Notes

1. Exit with: ctrl-d

People

1. Ben Pollard, Product Manager for New Software Development at Bloomberg, told CSE that Bloomberg uses Lua.

References

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lua_%28programming_language%29
2. http://www.lua.org/home.html