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@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@ +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 @@ -11,12 +14,13 @@ 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. @@ -24,19 +28,23 @@ 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). |