Lua facts for kids
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| Paradigm | Multi-paradigm: scripting, imperative (procedural, prototype-based, object-oriented), functional |
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| Designed by | Roberto Ierusalimschy Waldemar Celes Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo |
| First appeared | 1993 |
| Stable release | 5.3.4 / January 30, 2017 |
| Typing discipline | dynamic, strong, duck |
| OS | Cross-platform |
| License | MIT License |
| Major implementations | |
| Lua, LuaJIT, LLVM-Lua, Lua Alchemy | |
| Dialects | |
| Metalua, Idle, GSL Shell | |
| Influenced by | |
| C++, CLU, Modula, Scheme, SNOBOL | |
| Influenced | |
| Io, GameMonkey, Squirrel, Falcon, MiniD | |
Lua is an open source programming language. It was created in 1993 by Roberto Ierusalimschy, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo, and Waldemar Celes. Lua is used for many different things, especially in video games such as World of Warcraft and SimCity 4. It is also used in the popular virtual world sharing website Roblox. In June 2010, Apple Inc. changed the terms of use for the software development kit of its iOS operating system to allow the use of Lua. This led to Lua being used to make iPhone applications such as Angry Birds. In June 2011, Lua was ranked the tenth most popular programming language by the TIOBE Index.
Example
An example Hello World program in Lua:
#!/usr/bin/lua
print("Hello World!")An example of setting a value, then printing it:
#!/usr/bin/lua
a = "Hello World!"
print(a)See also
In Spanish: Lúa (desambiguación) para niños
