The evolution of Lua

Proceedings - Third ACM SIGPLAN History of Programming Languages Conference, HOPL-III

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

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

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

^b IMPA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNCTION EVALUATION; SEMANTIC WEB; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

ANONYMOUS FUNCTIONS; CONFIGURATION LANGUAGE; EVOLUTION OF LUA; EXTENSIBLE SEMANTICS;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES;

EID: 35348910174     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1238844.1238846     Document Type: Conference Paper

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