Lua is a powerful, fast scripting language with vibrant user communities
on many platforms. Lua celebrates its 20th birthday this year.
From the Lua website (http://www.lua.org/about.html):
Lua has a deserved reputation for performance. To claim to be "as
fast as Lua" is an aspiration of other scripting languages. Several
benchmarks show Lua as the fastest language in the realm of
interpreted scripting languages.
Lua4z is a binary distribution of Lua for z/OS, with "batteries" (a
collection of extension libraries).
Lua4z runs in MVS batch, TSO batch and foreground, and z/OS UNIX.
Lua4z includes support for:
* All I/O access methods, including BSAM, QSAM, VSAM, z/OS UNIX, and
hiperspaces. Supports data sets with spanned records.
* XML
* JSON
* Web programming (Lua4z includes a full web programming stack:
sockets, I/O scheduler, HTTP client/server, SMTP, FTP, MVC framework)
* Multithreading (cooperative and preemptive)
* Regular expressions
* ISPF
* SQL database access (DB2, SQLite)
* Object-oriented programming
* Functional programming
Lua4z is available at no charge. Download it now from:
http://lua4z.com
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