The source for Lua is pretty good (if a little dense at times), and you can read it in-browser: http://www.lua.org/source/5.1/ http://www.lua.org/source/5.1/ T

The source for Lua is pretty good (if a little dense at times), and you can read it in-browser: http://www.lua.org/source/5.1/ http://www.lua.org/source/5.1/ There's a suggested roadmap for reading it, too: http://www.reddit.com/comments/63hth/ask_reddit_which_oss_codebases_out_there_are_so/c02pxbp http://www.reddit.com/comments/63hth/ask_reddit_which_oss_co... It is written in ruthlessly standard ANSI C (for maximum portability). It will probably also complement your C -- it's intended to be a handy drop-in scripting language to embed in C programs, though it's also a pretty cool language on its own merits. They had an unwavering focus on keeping it clean and very small for embedding, and they make some really interesting choices along the way. It's sort of like a minimalistic Python; it gets a lot of power out of using "tables" (rather like Python dictionaries or Perl hashes) as a primary data type.