A Look at the Design of Lua.

The article reports on potential uses for the Brazilian scripting language Lua. It mentions the simplicity and portability of the language, the tables and functions that are part of Lua as well as their capabilities, and the coroutines that can be used in operations.

Bibliographic Details
Published in:	Communications of the ACM Vol. 61; no. 11; pp. 114 - 124
Main Authors:	IERUSALIMSCHY, ROBERTO, DE FIGUEIREDO, LUIZ HENRIQUE, CELES, WALDEMAR
Format:	Article
Published:	Association for Computing Machinery Nov2018
Subjects:	Scripting languages (Computer science) Software compatibility Coroutines (Computer programs) Table manipulation (Computer science) Subroutines (Computer programs)
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost

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Summary:	The article reports on potential uses for the Brazilian scripting language Lua. It mentions the simplicity and portability of the language, the tables and functions that are part of Lua as well as their capabilities, and the coroutines that can be used in operations.