The evolution of Lua

We report on the birth and evolution of Lua and discuss how it moved from a simple configuration language to a versatile, widely used language that supports extensible semantics, anonymous functions, full lexical scoping, proper tail calls, and coroutines. Categories and Subject Descriptors K.2 [HISTORY OF COMPUTING]: Software; D.3 [PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES]

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: HOPL
• Authors: Roberto Ierusalimschy, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo, Waldemar Celes Filho
• Keywords: Extensible Semantics, HOPL 2007, Programming Languages, Proper Tail Calls, Simple Configuration Language