The Programming Language Lua
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Lua: getting started
Lua is a powerful and fast programming language that is easy to learn and use and to embed into your application. Lua is designed to be a lightweight embeddable scripting language.
Lua: download
Source Lua is free software distributed in source code. It may be used for any purpose, including commercial purposes, at absolutely no cost. All versions are available for download. The …
Lua: about
Lua is a powerful, efficient, lightweight, embeddable scripting language. It supports several programming styles: procedural, object-oriented, functional, data-driven, and data description.
Lua: documentation
The official definition of the Lua language is its reference manual, which describes the syntax and the semantics of Lua, the standard libraries, and the C API.
Lua 5.3 Reference Manual - contents
Lua 5.3 Reference Manual The reference manual is the official definition of the Lua language. For a complete introduction to Lua programming, see the book Programming in Lua.
Lua 5.1 Reference Manual - contents
May 5, 2021 · For a complete introduction to Lua programming, see the book Programming in Lua. This manual is also available as a book: Lua 5.1 Reference Manual by R. Ierusalimschy, …
Programming in Lua : 1
Nevertheless, Lua is still the same language; most things that we will see here are valid regardless of how you are using Lua. For a start, we recommend that you use the stand-alone …
Lua: reference manuals
Apr 10, 2024 · The official definition of the Lua language is its reference manual, which describes the syntax and the semantics of Lua, the standard libraries, and the C API.
Programming in Lua : 3.2
Lua compares strings in alphabetical order, which follows the locale set for Lua. For instance, with the European Latin-1 locale, we have "acai" < "açaí" < "acorde".