Capítulo 3 Uma Introdução à Programação em Lua

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Cap tulo 3Uma Introdu o programa o em LuaRoberto IerusalimschyAbstractLua is a scripting language widely used in several areas, from desktop applications, such as AdobePhotoshop Lightroom, to software for embedded systems. It is the leading language for scriptinggames and it is part of Ginga, the standard middleware for theBrazilian Digital TV system. Lua is alsofrequently used in security, being the scripting language embedded in tools like Wireshark, snort, text presents the Lua language emphasizing its unconventional mechanisms. The goal is tointroduce the language together with some non-conventional programming techniques, such as higher-order functions, coroutines, and APIs between languages.

mas os programas interpretados não terão acesso às variáveis e funções de- ... Mesmo na progra-mação em ponto grande (programming in the large) a gerência automática de memória tem um impacto significativo, ao simplificar as inter faces entre com-ponentes. (Como um exercício, pegue a API de qualquer biblioteca C de porte

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