Lua was originally designed as a configuration file format that supported functions. Description: https://www.netbsd.org/~mbalmer/lua/lua_config.pdf https://www

Lua was originally designed as a configuration file format that supported functions. Description: https://www.netbsd.org/~mbalmer/lua/lua_config.pdf https://www.netbsd.org/~mbalmer/lua/lua_config.pdf Relative to other languages, it is very easy to embed Lua and it is also easy to cut out Lua’s entire standard library to restrict what the scripts are capable of doing within your program.