Lua is a powerful, light-weight programming language designed for extending applications. Lua is also frequently used as a general-purpose, stand-alone language. Lua is free software. For complete information, visit Lua's web site at http://www.lua.org/ For an executive summary, see http://www.lua.org/about.html Lua has been used in many different projects around the world. For a short list, see http://www.lua.org/uses.html