Higher-Order Perl
by Mark Jason Dominus Order Higher-Order Perl online from Powell's Books Download full text here There are three versions available. License reminder Higher-Order Perl is copyright ©2005 by Elsevier Inc. You may download the book for your personal use, but you may not distribute it to other people, either individually or by uploading it to a file-sharing service. Although the text is available for free, Higher-Order Perl is not in the public domain and is not available under a free license of any sort. This is the publisher's own PDF proof of the second version, which was sent to the printers in August 2005. This is better than the bootleg copies available from download sites in at least three ways: It is the complete text of the second printing, which incorporates many minor corrections; the bootleg copies are all bootlegs of the first printing. Download the whole book. Reformatted with less marginal whitespace for mobile devices. Download individual chapters How was this created? MOD package
wiki: Lua Tutorial
Introduction About the tutorial This tutorial is aimed at all newcomers to the language Lua. A configuration language for applications. The tutorial tries to appeal to users of Lua on several levels: Users who are relatively new to programming. The style is simple, with lots of examples. Note to programmers wanting to embed Lua: Please note that this tutorial is aimed at usage of the scripting language, rather than the C API for embedding. This site you are reading is a wiki. About Lua Lua is a powerful, lightweight scripting language. Let's start Running Lua Please note that this tutorial assumes you are using Lua version 5.1. There is a page for contributed LuaBinaries for various platforms. LuaLiveDemo: If you are curious and would like to quickly try Lua without having to download anything you could try [Lua Demo] directly in your browser. The tutorials The tutorials are listed in the TutorialDirectory. Notes on tutorial authoring style Connect with the community May the force be with you!
Programming Pearls
by Jon Bentley. Addison-Wesley, Inc., 2000. ISBN 0-201-65788-0. 239 + xi pp. $24.95 This book is a collection of essays about a glamorous aspect of software: programming pearls whose origins lie beyond solid engineering, in the realm of insight and creativity. The book is full of small case studies, real examples, and interesting exercises for learning about how to program. Steve McConnell describes the book as ``a celebration of design in the small''. What's new on this web site? From The BookTable of ContentsPrefacePart I: Preliminaries Column 1: Cracking the Oyster Column 2: Aha! About The BookWhy a Second Edition? Supporting MaterialSource CodeWeb Sites Relevant to the BookAnimation of Sorting AlgorithmsTricks of the TradeTeaching Material Other Links
The.Lua.Tutorial » Introduction
Judging by the fact that you have stumbled upon this document, I doubt you are actually wondering. However, to quote the official definition: Lua is a powerful, fast, lightweight, embeddable scripting language. We'll just assume that the reader is competent enough to actually start Lua. Download Lua for Windows (Google is your friend) Lua Interpreter Lua is an interpreted language. Lua IDE Contrary to what hardcore "coders" tell you, notepad is not your ideal development environment. Let's try out our fancy new Lua installation. It's Never Lupus! is an auto immune disease. What we type in: What comes out: It's Never Lupus! As you may have guessed, the statement print("blah blah blah") will print out blah blah blah. If someone says Auto Immune again, you're fired! To finish off with our introduction, I will present a sample program that will demonstrate other features of Lua. Maybe it's Auto Immune... The keyword specifies that we're going into a loop.
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wiki: Lua Uses
Here are brief descriptions of a few selected projects around the world that use Lua. (Wikipedia contains a [longer list].) If you know about an exciting project using Lua that is not listed here, please add it. What is the policy for adding items to this page? Yes, this is a filtered list, but the authors don't want to maintain the filtering algorithm and prefer the community to do the selection. I don't think a comprehensive list has much point and might become a junkyard of defunct projects which never got off the ground. [arcapos] micro systems arcapos® is a point of sale solution for ticketing, libraries and retail. Contact: Marc Balmer [Codea] Codea is an iPad app with visual extensions. [V-REP (Virtual Robot Experimentation Platform)] V-REP Marc Freese V-REP is a 3D robot simulator based on a distributed control architecture: Lua scripts (i.e. control programs) can be directly attached to scene objects and run simultaneously in a threaded or non-threaded fashion. [ScriptStudio] Crytek
5.1 Reference Manual - contents
The reference manual is the official definition of the Lua language. For a complete introduction to Lua programming, see the book Programming in Lua. This manual is also available as a book: Lua 5.1 Reference Manual by R. Ierusalimschy, L. Buy a copy of this book and help to support the Lua project. Copyright © 2006–2012 Lua.org, PUC-Rio. Contents Index
