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Lua wasn’t made for scripting video games but as a scripting language for a mining company if I remember correctly from this excellent paper[1]. I can highly re
by SanderSantema 3y ago
Lua wasn’t made for scripting video games but as a scripting language for a mining company if I remember correctly from this excellent paper[1]. I can highly recommend all the other ACM hopl papers too for those interested in the history of programming languages. The papers don’t seem to be open access but sci-hub might help with that if you’re so inclined.
[1] https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3186277 https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3186277
- carterschonwald 3y agoThe hopl paper on lua seems to indicate it came out of a Brazil university. https://www.lua.org/doc/hopl.pdf https://www.lua.org/doc/hopl.pdf
- airstrike 3y agoIndeed. It was created at PUC-Rio, my alma mater
- tomjakubowski 3y agoLua means moon in Portuguese! (cognate of Luna)
- winrid 3y agoand there is also moonscript which transpiles to Lua!
- zendist 3y agoThis one? https://www.lua.org/doc/cacm2018.pdf https://www.lua.org/doc/cacm2018.pdf
- jf 3y agoI’d love to see your other suggestions!
- osigurdson 3y agoI once met Waldemar Celes, one of the co creators of Lua. It was meant for use within a tool called Geresim for visualizing large 3D models of oil/gas reservoirs - primarily for Petrobras, the Brazilian national oil company.