Knowledge facts, terms and explanations of LUA

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Hey hey,

Let's do something usefull with out life rather than posting weird picture's on a forum. The game is simple, you will take a fact, term, error ( deadlock, weird error ), awesome snippet and tell something about it.

The rules are;

* You are not allowed to post more than 1 thing in a reply, don't double post!

* Posting nudity is not allowed

* Don't repeat yourself

* Be nice

I'll start;

Small part of lua's history

Lua has been made by 3 people, Roberto Lerusalimschy, Waldemar Celes and Luiz Henrique De Figueiredo. The first 4 versions were released under the BSD-license, the last version ( v5 ) has been released under the MIT-license. Lua v1 has been released somewhere in 1993 and the latest version ( 5.2.3 ) has been released on 7 December 2013.