Download or read book Lua 5.2 Reference Manual written by Roberto Ierusalimschy and published by . This book was released on 2015-11-04 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lua is a powerful, fast, lightweight, embeddable scripting language. Lua combines simple procedural syntax with powerful data description constructs based on associative arrays and extensible semantics. Lua is dynamically typed, runs by interpreting bytecode for a register-based virtual machine, and has automatic memory management with incremental garbage collection, making it ideal for configuration, scripting, and rapid prototyping. This reference manual is 51 pages long.