I haven’t talked about programming languages for a while so here goes: We start this week with the free, open source (MIT License) Lua language. First released in 1993, Lua (which means “moon ...

Lua is one of a handful of languages that are helping kids try their hand at software programming amid a boom in online games and applications for devices such as the iPhone.

Dynamic languages have proved invaluable to improving fast and agile development, most notably for Web development and system administration. Lua is a language that fits in this space. Dynamic ...