ORBIT: an optimizing compiler for scheme
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Using prototypical objects to implement shared behavior in object-oriented systems
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OOPSLA '87 Conference proceedings on Object-oriented programming systems, languages and applications
Latex: a document preparation system
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ICON Programmng Language
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Higher-Order and Symbolic Computation
Rabbit: A Compiler for Scheme
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Artificial Intelligence for Games (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Interactive 3D Technology)
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Programming in Lua, Second Edition
Programming in Lua, Second Edition
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Proceedings of the third ACM SIGPLAN conference on History of programming languages
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Lua is a scripting language used in many industrial applications, with an emphasis on embedded systems and games. Two key points in the design of the language that led to its widely adoption are flexibility and small size. To achieve these two conflicting goals, the design emphasizes the use of few but powerful mechanisms, such as first-class functions, associative arrays, coroutines, and reflexive capabilities. As a consequence of this design, although Lua is primarily a procedural language, it is frequently used in several different programming paradigms, such as functional, object-oriented, goal-oriented, and concurrent programming, and also for data description. In this paper we discuss what mechanisms Lua features to achieve its flexibility and how programmers use them for different paradigms.