| Name : lua
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| Version : 5.0
| Vendor : (none)
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| Release : rb3
| Date : 2004-02-15 13:17:14
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| Group : System/Shells
| Source RPM : lua-5.0-rb3.src.rpm
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| Size : 0.72 MB
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| Packager : Richard Bos < rbos_users_sourceforge_net>
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| Summary : a powerful light-weight programming language designed for extending applications.
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Description :
Lua is a powerful light-weight programming language designed for extending
applications. Lua is also frequently used as a general-purpose, stand-alone
language. Lua is free software.
Lua 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.
Lua is a language engine that you can embed into your application. This means
that, besides syntax and semantics, Lua has an API that allows the application
to exchange data with Lua programs and also to extend Lua with C functions. In
this sense, Lua can be regarded as a language framework for building
domain-specific languages.
Lua is designed and implemented by a team at Tecgraf, the Computer Graphics
Technology Group of PUC-Rio (the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de
Janeiro in Brazil). Tecgraf is a laboratory of the Department of Computer
Science.
Lua means moon in Portuguese and is pronounced LOO-ah.
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RPM found in directory: /packages/linux-pbone/ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/suser-rschulz |
