This_Site.lua

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   2 title          = "This Site"
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   6 This is the homepage of [[The Author|Joan Arnaldich]]. It's all about programming and technology.
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   8 This site runs on a custom, stripped-down version of the amazing [Sputnik]("http://sputnik.freewisdom.org/") wiki engine, which is written in the [Lua]("http://www.lua.org").
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  10 Why Lua? Quoting from the [Sputnik]("http://sputnik.freewisdom.org/en/Lua") project Wiki,
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  12 > One [feature] that Sputnik exploits most aggressively is Lua's ability to serve at the same time as a programming language and a format for data storage.
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  14 That is often referred as "Code as Data" and, together with prototype-based inheritance, allows for a very neat implementation for a wiki, in which each node is actually lua code. That alone sounds just too appealing for a hacker wannabe like me...
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  16 ]=]
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