Cactus Code Thorn lua Author(s) : Frank Löffler Erik Schnetter Maintainer(s): Cactus team Licence : GPLv3+ (thorn), MIT (lua) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Purpose Distribute the lua library; see . From the web site: Lua is a powerful, fast, lightweight, embeddable scripting language. Lua combines simple procedural syntax with powerful data description constructs based on associative arrays and extensible semantics. Lua is dynamically typed, runs by interpreting bytecode for a register-based virtual machine, and has automatic memory management with incremental garbage collection, making it ideal for configuration, scripting, and rapid prototyping.