| README for Lua 5.1 |
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| See INSTALL for installation instructions. |
| See HISTORY for a summary of changes since the last released version. |
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| * What is Lua? |
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| Lua is a powerful, light-weight programming language designed for extending |
| applications. Lua is also frequently used as a general-purpose, stand-alone |
| language. Lua is free software. |
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| For complete information, visit Lua's web site at http://www.lua.org/ . |
| For an executive summary, see http://www.lua.org/about.html . |
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| Lua has been used in many different projects around the world. |
| For a short list, see http://www.lua.org/uses.html . |
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| * Availability |
| ------------ |
| Lua is freely available for both academic and commercial purposes. |
| See COPYRIGHT and http://www.lua.org/license.html for details. |
| Lua can be downloaded at http://www.lua.org/download.html . |
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| * Installation |
| ------------ |
| Lua is implemented in pure ANSI C, and compiles unmodified in all known |
| platforms that have an ANSI C compiler. In most Unix-like platforms, simply |
| do "make" with a suitable target. See INSTALL for detailed instructions. |
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| * Origin |
| ------ |
| Lua is developed at Lua.org, a laboratory of the Department of Computer |
| Science of PUC-Rio (the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro |
| in Brazil). |
| For more information about the authors, see http://www.lua.org/authors.html . |
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| (end of README) |
