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Lua - Embeddable programming language

Lua is a programming language designed for extending applications. It is also frequently used as a general-purpose, stand-alone language. It combines simple procedural syntax with powerful data description constructs based on associative arrays and extensible semantics. Lua is dynamically typed, interpreted from bytecodes, and has automatic memory management with garbage collection, making it ideal for configuration, scripting, and rapid prototyping.

Obtaining

Web pagehttp://www.lua.org/
Source tarballhttp://www.lua.org/ftp/lua-5.0.tar.gz
Source informationhttp://www.lua.org/download.html
Version 5.0.2 (stable) released on 2004-02-25
Licensed under Lua license.
This is not a GNU package.

Documentation
User reference manual in HTML format available from http://www.lua.org/manual/5.0/; User man pages included; See also http://www.lua.org/docs.html for a complete list of available documentation
Support contacts

Announce Listhttp://www.lua.org/lua-l.html
Announce Newscomp.lang.misc, comp.programming, comp.compilers
Help Listhttp://www.lua.org/lua-l.html
Developer Listhttp://www.lua.org/lua-l.html
Bug Listhttp://www.lua.org/lua-l.html
Support<lua@tecgraf.puc-rio.br>

Project contacts

Maintainers
Developers
Sponsors
  • TeCGraf: Computer Graphics Technology Group of PUC-Rio, Brazil (http://www.tecgr

Related information

Interfacescommand line
Programslua, luac
Source languagesC
Supported languagesC, C++

Entry information

License verified byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2002-02-05
Entry compiled byLua team <lua@tecgraf.puc-rio.br>

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