Lua - An extensible extension language

Software - Practice and Experience

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 635-652

  Ierusalimschy, Roberto ^a   De Figueiredo, Luiz Henrique ^a   Celes Filho, Waldemar ^a  

^a PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

End user programming; Extension languages; Programming languages

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER HARDWARE DESCRIPTION LANGUAGES; DATA STRUCTURES; FILE ORGANIZATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; RECURSIVE FUNCTIONS; USER INTERFACES;

END USER PROGRAMMING; EXTENSION LANGUAGE; SOFTWARE PACKAGE LUA;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES;

EID: 0030168832     PISSN: 00380644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-024X(199606)26:6<635::AID-SPE26>3.0.CO;2-P     Document Type: Article

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