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Lobster

This program seems to have been written in Lua . . .
http://www.freepops.org/en/

Has anyone used or experimented with Lua - it is a scripting language available as a Pupget . . .

Cool

BarryK · Posted: Mon 01 Aug 2005, 21:57 Post subject:

Yep, lua-4.01 is a pupget, but that version is very old and the Lua language has changed somewhat since then.

Revolutionist · Guest

this is the lua package needed for lua? and it's compiler!!
this will install everything when done open terminal and type
lua or luac
for more information you should see there site!!!

klhrevolutionist · Joined: 08 Jun 2005 Posts: 1124

Sorry, about that it is me I put that up there so have fun with it!!!
it is the newest release, just go to there web site for more info, unless you already know of lua!!!

Lobster · Posted: Fri 05 Aug 2005, 08:04 Post subject:

I don't know it - but it is a fast scripted or interpreted language

very elegant

try version 4 online - hey only 100k to download . . .
http://doris.sourceforge.net/lua/weblua.php

Here is some example code I am working on
(I prefer to use the language - pah - why should I have to learn it) Embarassed

you create a text file called for example
welcome.lua
and call it by typing lua welcome.lua

in the welcome.lua test file below