Lua

Lua is a lightweight, high-level, multi-paradigm programming language designed mainly for embedded use in applications. Lua is cross-platform software, since the interpreter of compiled bytecode is written in ANSI C, and Lua has a relatively simple C application programming interface (API) to embed it into applications. Wikipedia

Created Year: 1993
Designed by: Roberto Ierusalimschy
Developed by: Roberto Ierusalimschy
Operating systems: cross-platform
Implemented in: C
Named after: Moon
Aliases: Lua language
File extensions: anair, lua, luna, lunaire

Wikidata: Q207316

Influenced: Céu • Dragon • Io • JavaScript • Julia • Micro Lua DS • Ring • Ruby

Influenced by: C++ • CLU • Modula • Modula-2 • Scheme • SNOBOL

Programming paradigms: functional programming • imperative programming • multi-paradigm programming • object-oriented programming • procedural programming • prototype-based programming

Language types: compiled language • functional programming language • imperative programming language • interpreted language • object-based language • scripting language