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Lua and RISC OS
Gavin Wraith
Monday 18th January 2010, 7:45pm

Lua is a powerful, fast, lightweight, embeddable programming language. It is available for many operating systems, including of course RISC OS.

Gavin started developing RiscLua in 2002 and has been promoting its use ever since! Among the topics he will be covering are:

  • How is Lua different and why is it so successful.
  • How is RiscLua different from BBC BASIC: a comparison of the areas where each language shines, and of their strengths and weaknesses.
  • Using RiscLua with StrongED: how to search for patterns across many files without having to struggle with the horrors of unintelligible regexp syntax.
  • Cooking up little programs for special problems, without needing the RISC OS PRMs.

    • For a very impressive example of what is possible using Lua on RISC OS, see the commercial data analysis package LuaFox

    A video of this presentation can be downloaded from here

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