RiscLua version history
Lua for RISC OS
Notes on RiscLua 5.60
Notes on the sources
RiscLua is a small easily learnt programming language
for RISC OS. You can find a tutorial introduction to it
here in RiscLua for Beginners and an example worked out in detail here in RiscLua tips. You can also find a discussion of similarities between BBC Basic and RiscLua.
For an introduction to the lpeg library, which provides
very powerful facilities for matching patterns and catching data
within text, see
Around PEGs or Parser expression Grammars.
Around PEGs or Parser expression Grammars.
The RiscLua package consists of an application !lua,
that contains its own documentation.
RiscLua 5.60 downloads:Extract !lua to anywhere on your storage device. The full
distribution is equivalent to downloading each of the following
and dragging the contents of the zipfile over !lua:
The C sourcecode can be downloaded separately here:
For technical details about the sources, for compilation
of RiscLua, see the sources page.
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