Re: Why Lua? (was Offtopic - To the authors)

[Adriano <ferreira@...>]

The word of the authors can be read at the paper entitled
"The Evolution of an Extension Language: A History of Lua"
http://www.lua.org/history.htmlhttp://www.lua.org/history.html

Before Lua, there was Sol (sun in Portuguese) which was an acronym (for 
Simple Object
Language). The language matured and needed a new name: Lua as a counterpar 
of
Sol.

Don't believe me. Read the article.

Regards,

Adriano.


On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 20:41:26 -0300, Carlos Lorenz <carlos.lorenz@bol.com.br> 
wrote:

> Never mind. I just asked because I thought LUA could stand for "Linguagem 
> de Uso Acadêmico" or (academical usage language) or stuff like that and 
> I'd like to be sure of it
> Carlos
>
> Em Seg 07 Jul 2003 20:08, Mauricio Oliveira Carneiro escreveu:
>
> > On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 19:34, Mauricio Oliveira Carneiro wrote:
> > > > Is LUA only the Portuguese word for "moon" or also is it an
> > > > acronym?
> > >
> > > Just the portuguese word for moon.
> >
> > Ehrr.. sorry, I haven't read that you wanted the opinion of the
> > autors, I'm far from being an author !
> >
> > Excuse me.



--
Adriano