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Lua

John Imboden. Lua. What is Lua. Embeddable scripting language Creators: Roberto Lerusalimschy , Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo , and Waldemar Celes Designed using a bottom up design scheme Originally developed as a tool for business applications (mainly data entry). Why I chose Lua.

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Lua

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  1. John Imboden Lua

  2. What is Lua • Embeddable scripting language • Creators: Roberto Lerusalimschy, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo, and WaldemarCeles • Designed using a bottom up design scheme • Originally developed as a tool for business applications (mainly data entry)

  3. Why I chose Lua • Significant titles • World of Warcraft • Sim City 4 • Adobe Photoshop Lightroom • Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning • FarCry

  4. What can Lua do? • Lua’s use in the gaming industry • User Interfaces • Ai scripts • Game animations

  5. Example UI

  6. Limits of Lua? • Lua is highly customizable • Lua has a high overhead if data is declared improperly

  7. Pros of Lua • Highly Portable • Extremely easy to incorporate in C or C++ • No need to recompile while debugging • Familiar syntax for those used to C

  8. Cons of Lua • Memory management • Out of the box debugging is lacking • Global Variables

  9. Evaluation • Readability • Writeability • Reliability • Cost

  10. References Slide 1: image from http://lua.org Slide 2: http://lua.org/history.html Slide 3: http://lua-users.org/wiki/LuaUses Slide 7-8: http://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/18285/what-are-the-pros-and-cons-of-incorporating-lua-into-a-c-game

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