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

[Martin Spernau <martin@...>]

Adriano wrote:

> 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.

Which then gives us an interesting 'circle' of history, as there is the 
'Sol' language which is a modification of Lua, and an acronym for 'Son 
of Lua'...
http://www.goron.de/~froese/sol/

-Martin