| README for Lua 5.1 | |
| See INSTALL for installation instructions. | |
| See HISTORY for a summary of changes since the last released version. | |
| * What is Lua? | |
| ------------ | |
| Lua is a powerful, light-weight programming language designed for extending | |
| applications. Lua is also frequently used as a general-purpose, stand-alone | |
| language. Lua is free software. | |
| For complete information, visit Lua's web site at http://www.lua.org/ . | |
| For an executive summary, see http://www.lua.org/about.html . | |
| Lua has been used in many different projects around the world. | |
| For a short list, see http://www.lua.org/uses.html . | |
| * Availability | |
| ------------ | |
| Lua is freely available for both academic and commercial purposes. | |
| See COPYRIGHT and http://www.lua.org/license.html for details. | |
| Lua can be downloaded at http://www.lua.org/download.html . | |
| * Installation | |
| ------------ | |
| Lua is implemented in pure ANSI C, and compiles unmodified in all known | |
| platforms that have an ANSI C compiler. In most Unix-like platforms, simply | |
| do "make" with a suitable target. See INSTALL for detailed instructions. | |
| * Origin | |
| ------ | |
| Lua is developed at Lua.org, a laboratory of the Department of Computer | |
| Science of PUC-Rio (the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro | |
| in Brazil). | |
| For more information about the authors, see http://www.lua.org/authors.html . | |
| (end of README) |