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@@ -1,72 +1,44 @@ -This is Lua 4.0. -See HISTORY for a summary of changes since the last version. +This is Lua 5.0. +See HISTORY for a summary of changes since the last released version. * What is Lua? ------------ Lua is a powerful, light-weight programming language designed for extending applications. Lua is also frequently used as a general-purpose, stand-alone - language. + language. Lua is free software. - Lua combines simple procedural syntax (similar to Pascal) with powerful - data description constructs based on associative arrays and extensible - semantics. Lua is dynamically typed, interpreted from bytecodes, and has - automatic memory management, 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 implemented as a small library of C functions, written in ANSI C, - and compiles unmodified in all known platforms. The implementation goals - are simplicity, efficiency, portability, and low embedding cost. - The result is a fast language engine with small footprint, making it - ideal in embedded systems too. - - Lua was awarded the first prize (technological category) in the - Second Compaq Award for Research and Development in Computer Science in 1997. - This award was a joint venture of Compaq Computer in Brazil, the Brazilian - Ministry of Science and Technology, and the Brazilian Academy of Sciences. + For complete information, visit Lua's web site at http://www.lua.org/ . + For an executive summary, see http://www.lua.org/about.html . Lua has been used in many different projects around the world. - For a short list, see http://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/lua/uses.html . + For a short list, see http://www.lua.org/uses.html . * Availability ------------ - Lua is freely available for both academic and commercial purposes and - can be downloaded from the sites below. See COPYRIGHT for details. - - Home page: http://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/lua/ - http://csg.uwaterloo.ca/~lhf/lua/ - In Brazil: ftp://ftp.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/pub/lua/ - In Canada: ftp://csg.uwaterloo.ca/pub/lhf/lua/ - In the US: ftp://ftp.freesoftware.com/pub/languages/lua/ - In Germany: ftp://ftp.uni-trier.de/pub/languages/lua/ - In Germany: ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/languages/lua/ - In Greece: ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/lang/lua/ - In Japan: ftp://ftp.u-aizu.ac.jp/pub/lang/lua/ - In Denmark: ftp://ftp.ucore.com/lua/dist + Lua is freely available for both academic and commercial purposes. + See COPYRIGHT and http://www.lua.org/license.html for details. + Lua can be downloaded from its official site http://www.lua.org/ and + several other sites aroung the world. For a complete list of mirror sites, + see http://www.lua.org/mirrors.html . * Installation ------------ - See INSTALL. + Lua is implemented in pure ANSI C, and compiles unmodified in all known + platforms that have an ANSI C compiler. Under Unix, simply typing "make" + should work. See INSTALL for detailed instructions. * Contacting the authors ---------------------- - Lua was 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, questions, and bug reports to lua@tecgraf.puc-rio.br. + For more information about the authors, see http://www.lua.org/authors.html . For reporting bugs, try also the mailing list: lua-l@tecgraf.puc-rio.br. For more information about this list, including instructions on how to - subscribe, see http://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/lua/lua-l.html . + subscribe and access the archives, see http://www.lua.org/lua-l.html . - Lua is developed 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. - Dozens of industrial products developed by TeCGraf use Lua. +* Origin + ------ + Lua is developed 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. (end of README) |