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authorLua Team <team@lua.org>1999-07-08 12:00:00 +0000
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+This is Lua 3.2
+
* What is Lua?
+ ------------
Lua is a programming language originally designed for extending applications,
but also frequently used as a general-purpose, stand-alone language.
Lua combines simple procedural syntax (similar to Pascal) with powerful
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and compiles unmodified in all known platforms. The implementation goals
are simplicity, efficiency, portability, and low embedding cost.
- Lua has been awarded the first prize (technological category) in the Second
- Compaq Award for Research and Development in Computer Science. This award
+ Lua was awarded the first prize (technological category) in the Second Compaq
+ Award for Research and Development in Computer Science in 1997. This award
is a joint venture of Compaq Computer in Brazil, the Brazilian Ministry of
Science and Technology, and the Brazilian Academy of Sciences.
* Availability
+ ------------
Lua is freely available for both academic and commercial purposes and
can be downloaded from the sites below. See COPYRIGHT for details.
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http://csg.uwaterloo.ca/~lhf/lua/
In Brazil: ftp://ftp.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/pub/lua/lua.tar.gz
In Canada: ftp://csg.uwaterloo.ca/pub/lhf/lua/lua.tar.gz
+ In the US: ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/languages/lua/lua.tar.gz
In Germany: ftp://ftp.uni-trier.de/pub/languages/lua/lua.tar.gz
+ In Germany: ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/languages/lua/lua.tar.gz
In Greece: ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/lang/lua/lua.tar.gz
* Installation
+ ------------
See INSTALL.
* Contacting the authors
+ ----------------------
Lua has been designed and implemented by Waldemar Celes,
Roberto Ierusalimschy and Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo.
They can be contacted by email at lua@tecgraf.puc-rio.br.
Send your comments, bug reports and anything else to lua@tecgraf.puc-rio.br.
- For reporting bugs, try also the mailing list: lua-l@tecgraf.puc-rio.br
+ For reporting bugs, try also the mailing list: lua-l@tecgraf.puc-rio.br.
To subscribe to this list, send "subscribe lua-l YOUR-NAME" to
listproc@tecgraf.puc-rio.br in the body of the message (not in the subject).