[Pl-seminar] Talk Announcement
Hetchen Ehrenfeld
hetchen at deas.harvard.edu
Tue, 5 Feb 2002 13:22:08 -0500
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Tuesday, February 19, 2002
10:00 - 11:00 am
Maxwell Dworkin MD 119
Lua, a lightweight language
(www.lua.org)
Roberto Ierusalimschy, PUC-Rio, Brazil
Lua is a lightweight scripting language with a design that emphasizes
simplicity, portability, extensibility, and efficiency. Despite (or
because of) its "small-is-beautiful" approach, since its inception in
1993 Lua has gained wide acceptance in several application areas, such
as games and embedded systems.
Lua provides general meta-mechanisms (such as reflexivity) instead of
myriad specific features. That allows us to use Lua as a
skeleton-language
upon which we can build different domain-specific languages.
In this talk I will give an overview of the language, explain what makes
Lua different from other scripting languages, and discuss some new
features for its next version, such as coroutines and lexical scoping.
Host: Professor Norman Ramsey
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<b><font size=+1>Lua, a lightweight language</font></b>
<br>
(www.lua.org)
<p>Roberto Ierusalimschy, PUC-Rio, Brazil
<p>Lua is a lightweight scripting language with a design that emphasizes
<br>simplicity, portability, extensibility, and efficiency. Despite (or
<br>because of) its "small-is-beautiful" approach, since its inception
in
<br>1993 Lua has gained wide acceptance in several application areas, such
<br>as games and embedded systems.
<p>Lua provides general meta-mechanisms (such as reflexivity) instead of
<br>myriad specific features. That allows us to use Lua as a skeleton-language
<br>upon which we can build different domain-specific languages.
<p>In this talk I will give an overview of the language, explain what makes
<br>Lua different from other scripting languages, and discuss some new
<br>features for its next version, such as coroutines and lexical scoping.
<p>Host: Professor Norman Ramsey
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