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Proceedings of the third ACM SIGPLAN conference on History of programming languages table of contents

San Diego, California

Pages: 2-1 - 2-26

Year of Publication: 2007

ISBN:978-1-59593-766-X

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Roberto Ierusalimschy	PUC-Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo	IMPA-Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada, Brazil
Waldemar Celes	PUC-Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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SIGPLAN: ACM Special Interest Group on Programming Languages

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

We report on the birth and evolution of Lua and discuss how it moved from a simple configuration language to a versatile, widely used language that supports extensible semantics, anonymous functions, full lexical scoping, proper tail calls, and coroutines.

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