Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.20010522103606.006f1acc@wingate> X-Sender: n_abing#ns DOT roxas-online DOT net DOT ph AT wingate X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.1 (32) Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 10:36:06 +0800 To: djgpp-announce AT delorie DOT com From: "Nimrod A. Abing" Subject: ANNOUNCE: Now Available Lua 4.0 for DJGPP Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Hello. I am pleased to announce that Lua 4.0 is now available for DJGPP users. What is Lua? ============ Lua is a powerful, light-weight programming language designed for extending applications. Lua is also frequently used as a general-purpose, stand-alone language. Lua is free software. Lua combines simple procedural syntax 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. For more information about Lua, you can visit its home page at: . Packages ======== Lua for DJGPP has been split into three packages: source, documentation and pre-compiled binaries. For the meantime you can get them at the following URLS: Source: http://www.geocities.com/n_abing/packages/lua40s.zip Documentation: http://www.geocities.com/n_abing/packages/lua40d.zip Binary: http://www.geocities.com/n_abing/packages/lua40b.zip The binary packages contains the Lua API and basic libraries (liblua and lualib) as well as the byte-code compiler and interpreter (luac and lua). If you're new to Lua, you should also get the documentation package as it contains the Lua reference manual and some example programs written in Lua.