Help a journalist with an article

[Esther Schindler <esther@...>]

I'm doing an article for CIO.com on "5 [or whatever] languages that  
ought to be on your [IT Manager's] radar," and I'd like to include  
Lua. I'm looking for a short statement on why it's useful, and why  
the boss ought to let you use it for enterprise work. Any takers?

This is meant to be a short-and-sweet article: just its name, URL, a  
quick formal definition, and then one or two quotes from developers  
about why they think it's valuable. Imagine that you're trying to  
convince someone's boss to let you use it. What would you say?

(This is a follow-up to http://www.cio.com/article/446829/ 
PHP_JavaScript_Ruby_Perl_Python_and_Tcl_Today_The_State_of_the_Scripting 
_Universe in case you care. Some folks pointed out that a few  
"obvious" languages should have been included. I'm happy to comply.)

--Esther Schindler
  senior online editor, CIO.com