2 See HISTORY for a summary of changes since the last released version.
6 Lua is a powerful, light-weight programming language designed for extending
7 applications. Lua is also frequently used as a general-purpose, stand-alone
8 language. Lua is free software.
10 For complete information, visit Lua's web site at http://www.lua.org/ .
11 For an executive summary, see http://www.lua.org/about.html .
13 Lua has been used in many different projects around the world.
14 For a short list, see http://www.lua.org/uses.html .
18 Lua is freely available for both academic and commercial purposes.
19 See COPYRIGHT and http://www.lua.org/license.html for details.
20 Lua can be downloaded from its official site http://www.lua.org/ and
21 several other sites aroung the world. For a complete list of mirror sites,
22 see http://www.lua.org/mirrors.html .
26 Lua is implemented in pure ANSI C, and compiles unmodified in all known
27 platforms that have an ANSI C compiler. Under Unix, simply typing "make"
28 should work. See INSTALL for detailed instructions.
30 * Contacting the authors
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32 Send your comments, questions, and bug reports to lua@tecgraf.puc-rio.br.
33 For more information about the authors, see http://www.lua.org/authors.html .
34 For reporting bugs, try also the mailing list: lua-l@tecgraf.puc-rio.br.
35 For more information about this list, including instructions on how to
36 subscribe and access the archives, see http://www.lua.org/lua-l.html .
40 Lua is developed at Tecgraf, the Computer Graphics Technology Group
41 of PUC-Rio (the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil).
42 Tecgraf is a laboratory of the Department of Computer Science.