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Thursday, February 17, 2011

Beginning Lua Programming


Beginning Lua Programming


Beginning Lua Programming
English | 2010 | 120 pages | PDF | 8.5 MB

In computing, Lua is a lightweight, reflective, imperative and procedural programming language, designed as a scripting language with extensible semantics as a primary goal. The name means ‘moon’ in Portuguese. It has enjoyed great popularity in the videogames industry and is known for having a simple yet powerful C API.


A list of notable games using Lua:

#Crysis, a first-person shooter & spiritual successor to Far Cry. FarCry itself used Lua extensively.
# Star Wars: Empire at War and Universe at War: Earth Assault
# The Guild 2 Most of the game is programmed in Lua.
# World of Warcraft, a fantasy MMORPG. Lua is used to allow users to customize its user interface.
# The Witcher Uses Lua for game scripts
# Vendetta Online Uses Lua for game scripts and missions.


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