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Chapter 1. High-Level Language Overview > Introducing Lua
Introducing Lua
Lua is a byte-code interpreted glue language with extensible semantics as a primary feature. Lua is considered lightweight and was designed for extending applications. Its predecessors are Smalltalk, Perl, Pascal, and AFNOR, as illustrated in Figure 1.6. Lua is considered an excellent language for rapid prototyping and scripting and is implemented in C.