Lua

Description

Lua is a powerful, fast, lightweight, embeddable scripting language.

Lua combines simple procedural syntax with powerful data description constructs based on associative arrays and extensible semantics. Lua is dynamically typed, runs by interpreting bytecode for a register-based virtual machine, and has automatic memory management with incremental garbage collection, making it ideal for configuration, scripting, and rapid prototyping.

Runs on both FAT and HPFS file systems.

Version

• Last known OS/2 version: V5.2.4 (2015-04-23)

Prerequisites

• Older versions (5.1.4 and earlier) required EMX.

Links

• Do a search for Lua executables on hobbes
• Lua official homepage: http://www.lua.org

License and availability

• MIT license

Authors

• Roberto Ierusalimschy (Original author)
• Alexander Walz (OS/2 port)

Publications

• Roberto Ierusalimschy, L. H. de Figueiredo, W. Celes, et al.: Lua 5.2x Reference manual