Lua 3.2 ported to RISC OS

[Reuben Thomas]

I've just ported Lua, a dynamic extensible embeddable language, to RISC OS.
The README says:

Lua is a programming language originally designed for extending
applications, but also frequently used as a general-purpose, stand-alone
language. It combines simple procedural syntax (similar to Pascal) with
powerful data description constructs based on associative arrays and
extensible semantics. Lua is dynamically typed, interpreted from bytecodes,
and has automaticmemory management, making it ideal for configuration,
scripting, and rapid prototyping.

The home page is at http://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/lua/

Get the RISC OS version from http://sc3d.org/rrt/program.html

Lua comes in two flavours: standalone interpreter and embeddable library.
There's also a compiler that pre-generates binaries. The binary format is
free-form: linking a multi-file program consists simply of concatenating the
object files.

Thanks to the beautifully ANSI code, Lua was delightfully easy to port,
needing only some makefile hacking because of RISC OS oddities.

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