The A-Z of Programming Languages: Lua Sep 12, 2008, 14 :02 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (3652 reads) (Other stories by Naomi Hamilton)
"We needed an easy-to-use configuration language, and the only configuration language available at that time (1993) was Tcl. Our users did not consider Tcl an easy-to-use language. So we created our own configuration language."