The A-Z of Programming Languages: Lua

Sep 12, 2008, 14:02 (0 Talkback[s])
(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."

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