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What does LUA stand for? - 9/5/2015 2:00:56 PM

z1812

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I read frequent mention of LUA. Upon searching the forum and manual I cannot find a definition. Can someone tell me what it stands for?

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RE: What does LUA stand for? - 9/5/2015 2:34:54 PM

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Hi

Here's our lua scripting language resource string.

http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=3784722

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RE: What does LUA stand for? - 9/5/2015 3:00:24 PM

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The same script language I used to learn when using Leadwerks editor for game developing.

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RE: What does LUA stand for? - 9/6/2015 2:13:34 AM

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The programming language is named Lua, it is officially not a acronym.

Lua is a common word meaning Moon in Portuguese. The language is named like this because a previous programming language was already named SOL for Simple Object Language. And since SOL means Sun in Portuguese, its successor has been named Lua as a joke.

An interesting backronym has been invented by the Lua community to ironically explain that Lua is not an acronym: LUA would stand for Lua Uppercase Accident.

Historically however, LUA used to be an acronym in Portuguese. It once meant Linguagem para Usuarios de Aplica��o (Language for Application Users). The acronym was however never used in English documentation, because it would have been hard for non-Portuguese speakers to understand it.

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RE: What does LUA stand for? - 9/6/2015 10:59:19 AM

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Thank you for all for your answers. Thank you Baloogan for the comprehensive background information. I enjoyed the description.

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