tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68411896939231545062012-02-16T08:46:32.647-08:00Lua on OpenVMSJohn Appshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13009296879505481064noreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6841189693923154506.post-87480859708164848352010-05-16T05:41:00.000-07:002010-05-17T06:03:40.991-07:00Welcome to the Lua on OpenVMS blog!<div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.johndapps.com/">BC and JA</a> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">are happy to announce the availability of Lua on OpenVMS for Alpha and Integrity Servers.</span></span> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Lua (</span></span><a href="http://www.lua.org/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">http://www.lua.org</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">) is a powerful, fast, lightweight, embeddable scripting language that combines simple procedural syntax with powerful data description constructs based on associative arrays and extensible semantics. Lua is dynamically typed, runs by interpreting byte-codes using a register-based virtual machine, and has automatic memory management with incremental garbage collection, making it ideal for configuration, scripting, and rapid prototyping tasks.</span></span></i></div><div class="MsoBodyText" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal;"></span>This OpenVMS port of Lua includes the core binary distribution and several extensions, including LuaExpat (XML support), LuaSocket (for developing networking applications), LuaProc (co-routines), and several others. It is anticipated that additional modules will be included in future releases.</span></span></i></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"></span></font><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Regards, BC&JA</span></span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Please use this blog for providing feedback, making suggestions, reporting bugs, and whatever material you feel worth publishing.</span></span><br /><div></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Some feedback on what you are doing, or planning, with Lua will also be more than welcome.</span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Kits may be requested by sending an email stating whether Alpha or Integrity or both to:</span></span><br /><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">brett.r.cameron(AT)gmail.com</span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">johndapps(AT)gmail.com</span></span></li>
</ul><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"></span></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">You may wish to read the </span><a href="https://sites.google.com/a/johndapps.com/www/Lua-kit-notes-01.pdf?attredirects=0&d=1"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">release notes</span></a><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"> prior to requesting a download.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Courier New;">BC&JA</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6841189693923154506-8748085970816484835?l=luaonopenvms.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>John Appshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13009296879505481064noreply@blogger.com0