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				Lua is a programming language originally designed for extending applications,
				but also frequently used as a general-purpose, stand-alone language. Lua
				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 automatic memory
				management with garbage collection, making it ideal for configuration,
				scripting, and rapid prototyping.

				A fundamental concept in the design of Lua is to provide meta-mechanisms for
				implementing features, instead of providing a host of features directly in
				the language. For example, although Lua is not a pure object-oriented
				language, it does provide meta-mechanisms for implementing classes and
				inheritance. Lua's meta-mechanisms bring an economy of concepts and keep the
				language small, while allowing the semantics to be extended in unconventional
				ways. Extensible semantics is a distinguishing feature of Lua.

				Lua is implemented as a small library of C functions, written in ANSI C, and
				compiles unmodified in all known platforms. The implementation goals are
				simplicity, efficiency, portability, and low embedding cost.

				WWW: https://www.lua.org/