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Lua Programming/Features
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Features of Lua
The features of the lua programming language include:
simple
efficient
portable
extensible
adaptable to a broad range of applications
Lua is an extension programming language
Suitable for use as an embedded language within a host application
Cross Platform Support
Implemented in ANSI C
Lightweight core occupies just 60k and executable footprint of just 140k
Easy to use conventional scripting language
Dynamic datatypes
Powerful builtin support for text processing
Interpreted bytecode compilation for fast and efficient execution
Stack based virtual machine model
Support for procedural, /object oriented/, functional and datadriven programming
Supports coercion
freeform syntax
letter/case sensitive/
keywords