FLooP

FLooP

Ziring
Lua

Lua

Lua Language
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About

FLooP was a very simple recursive block structured language invented by Douglas Hofstadter for his book Godel, Escher, Bach. It features a simple subroutine structure, very simple number and boolean handling, and recursion. Unlike its cousin BLooP, FLooP does support unbounded loops. This allows it to possess the full power of a Turing machine, thus making it fair game for various undecidability theorums. The syntax of FLooP is rather verbose but simple in structure. Though Hofstadter doesn't mention it in GEB, FLooP is similar to early exercises in exploring the computational model of "Random Access Machines". Note the use of 'CELL(0) <= 2' and similar constructs. Though FLooP was never intended to be more than an academic exercise, an implementation of FLooP in Perl was made. Unfortunately, I can't seem to find it. S - block-structured language type.

About

Lua is a powerful, efficient, lightweight, embeddable scripting language. It supports procedural programming, object-oriented programming, functional programming, data-driven programming, and data description. Lua combines simple procedural syntax with powerful data description constructs based on associative arrays and extensible semantics. Lua is dynamically typed, runs by interpreting bytecode with a register-based virtual machine, and has automatic memory management with incremental garbage collection, making it ideal for configuration, scripting, and rapid prototyping. 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. Lua is fast not only in fine-tuned benchmark programs, but in real life too. Substantial fractions of large applications have been written in Lua.

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Audience

Anyone seeking a simple recursive block structured language with a simple subroutine structure

Audience

DevOps teams in need of a scripting language solution

Support

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Support

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API

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API

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Pricing

Free
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Training

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Training

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Company Information

Ziring
Founded: 1994
United States
cgibin.erols.com/ziring/cgi-bin/cep/cep.pl

Company Information

Lua Language
www.lua.org

Alternatives

Alternatives

ABAP

ABAP

SAP PRESS
Java

Java

Oracle

Categories

Categories

Integrations

Replit Supported
Apache SkyWalking Not Supported
Claude Opus 4.8 Not Supported
Claude Sonnet 5 Not Supported
Cocos Creator Not Supported
Cocos2d-x Not Supported
CoppeliaSim Not Supported
Defold Not Supported
Dragonfly Not Supported
GPT-5.6 Terra Not Supported
Grok 4.5 Not Supported
IP2Location Not Supported
Kimi K3.1 Pro Not Supported
Mako Server Not Supported
Neovim Not Supported
PostgresML Not Supported
Prolog Not Supported
SWE-1.7 Not Supported
Spacemacs Not Supported
Typora Not Supported

Integrations

Replit Supported
Apache SkyWalking Supported
Claude Opus 4.8 Supported
Claude Sonnet 5 Supported
Cocos Creator Supported
Cocos2d-x Supported
CoppeliaSim Supported
Defold Supported
Dragonfly Supported
GPT-5.6 Terra Supported
Grok 4.5 Supported
IP2Location Supported
Kimi K3.1 Pro Supported
Mako Server Supported
Neovim Supported
PostgresML Supported
Prolog Supported
SWE-1.7 Supported
Spacemacs Supported
Typora Supported
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