1README for Lua 5.1 2 3See INSTALL for installation instructions. 4See HISTORY for a summary of changes since the last released version. 5 6* What is Lua? 7 ------------ 8 Lua is a powerful, light-weight programming language designed for extending 9 applications. Lua is also frequently used as a general-purpose, stand-alone 10 language. Lua is free software. 11 12 For complete information, visit Lua's web site at http://www.lua.org/ . 13 For an executive summary, see http://www.lua.org/about.html . 14 15 Lua has been used in many different projects around the world. 16 For a short list, see http://www.lua.org/uses.html . 17 18* Availability 19 ------------ 20 Lua is freely available for both academic and commercial purposes. 21 See COPYRIGHT and http://www.lua.org/license.html for details. 22 Lua can be downloaded at http://www.lua.org/download.html . 23 24* Installation 25 ------------ 26 Lua is implemented in pure ANSI C, and compiles unmodified in all known 27 platforms that have an ANSI C compiler. In most Unix-like platforms, simply 28 do "make" with a suitable target. See INSTALL for detailed instructions. 29 30* Origin 31 ------ 32 Lua is developed at Lua.org, a laboratory of the Department of Computer 33 Science of PUC-Rio (the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro 34 in Brazil). 35 For more information about the authors, see http://www.lua.org/authors.html . 36 37(end of README) 38