This collection of articles record some of the existing wisdom and practice on how to program well in Lua. In well-written articles that go much beyond the brief informal exchange of tips in the mailing list or the wiki, the authors share their mastery of all aspects of Lua programming, elementary and advanced. The articles cover a wide spectrum of areas and approaches, with authors from both the industry and academia and titles about game programming, programming techniques, embedding and extending, algorithms and data structures, and design techniques.
Roberto Ierusalimschy is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at PUC-Rio (the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro), where he works with programming-language design and implementation. He is the leading architect of the Lua programming language and the author of "Programming in Lua" (now in its second edition and translated to Chinese, Korean, German, and Japanese).
Roberto has a M.Sc. Degree (1986) and a D.Sc. Degree (1990) in Computer Science, both from PUC-Rio. He was a visiting researcher at the University of Waterloo, (Canada, 1991), ICSI (CA, USA, 1994), GMD (Germany, 1997), and at UIUC (IL, USA, 2001/2002). As a professor at PUC-Rio, Roberto was the advisor of several students that later became influential members of the Lua community. Lately he has been developing LPEG, a novel pattern-matching package for Lua.
