What does LUA stand for?

[z1812]

I read frequent mention of LUA. Upon searching the forum and manual I cannot find a definition. Can someone tell me what it stands for?

[mikmykWS]

Hi

Here's our lua scripting language resource string.

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[Dysta]

The same script language I used to learn when using Leadwerks editor for game developing. [:)]

[RoryAndersonCDT]

The programming language is named Lua, it is officially not a acronym.

Lua is a common word meaning Moon in Portuguese. The language is named like this because a previous programming language was already named SOL for Simple Object Language. And since SOL means Sun in Portuguese, its successor has been named Lua as a joke.

An interesting backronym has been invented by the Lua community to ironically explain that Lua is not an acronym: LUA would stand for Lua Uppercase Accident.

Historically however, LUA used to be an acronym in Portuguese. It once meant Linguagem para Usuarios de Aplicação (Language for Application Users). The acronym was however never used in English documentation, because it would have been hard for non-Portuguese speakers to understand it.

[z1812]

Thank you for all for your answers. Thank you Baloogan for the comprehensive background information. I enjoyed the description.