1*21d3294cSantirezREADME for Lua 5.1 2*21d3294cSantirez 3*21d3294cSantirezSee INSTALL for installation instructions. 4*21d3294cSantirezSee HISTORY for a summary of changes since the last released version. 5*21d3294cSantirez 6*21d3294cSantirez* What is Lua? 7*21d3294cSantirez ------------ 8*21d3294cSantirez Lua is a powerful, light-weight programming language designed for extending 9*21d3294cSantirez applications. Lua is also frequently used as a general-purpose, stand-alone 10*21d3294cSantirez language. Lua is free software. 11*21d3294cSantirez 12*21d3294cSantirez For complete information, visit Lua's web site at http://www.lua.org/ . 13*21d3294cSantirez For an executive summary, see http://www.lua.org/about.html . 14*21d3294cSantirez 15*21d3294cSantirez Lua has been used in many different projects around the world. 16*21d3294cSantirez For a short list, see http://www.lua.org/uses.html . 17*21d3294cSantirez 18*21d3294cSantirez* Availability 19*21d3294cSantirez ------------ 20*21d3294cSantirez Lua is freely available for both academic and commercial purposes. 21*21d3294cSantirez See COPYRIGHT and http://www.lua.org/license.html for details. 22*21d3294cSantirez Lua can be downloaded at http://www.lua.org/download.html . 23*21d3294cSantirez 24*21d3294cSantirez* Installation 25*21d3294cSantirez ------------ 26*21d3294cSantirez Lua is implemented in pure ANSI C, and compiles unmodified in all known 27*21d3294cSantirez platforms that have an ANSI C compiler. In most Unix-like platforms, simply 28*21d3294cSantirez do "make" with a suitable target. See INSTALL for detailed instructions. 29*21d3294cSantirez 30*21d3294cSantirez* Origin 31*21d3294cSantirez ------ 32*21d3294cSantirez Lua is developed at Lua.org, a laboratory of the Department of Computer 33*21d3294cSantirez Science of PUC-Rio (the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro 34*21d3294cSantirez in Brazil). 35*21d3294cSantirez For more information about the authors, see http://www.lua.org/authors.html . 36*21d3294cSantirez 37*21d3294cSantirez(end of README) 38