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====== Lua ======

Project website: https://www.lua.org/

> Lua is a powerful, efficient, lightweight, embeddable scripting language. It supports procedural programming, object-oriented programming, functional programming, data-driven programming, and data description. 

===== Using lua =====

==== Loading the Module ====

**Example: **
<code>
[ktm5j@portal01] ~$ module load lua
[ktm5j@portal01] ~$ which lua               # <-- this shows us where the `lua` binary is located
/sw/centos/lua/current/bin/lua
[ktm5j@portal01] ~$ lua                     # <-- we can now run `lua`
Lua 5.3.4  Copyright (C) 1994-2017 Lua.org, PUC-Rio
>
</code>

==== Environment Variables ====

^ Variable ^ Join Type ^ String Added ^
| PATH | prepend |  |
| LD_LIBRARY_PATH | prepend |  |
| LD_INCLUDE_PATH | prepend |  |
| MANPATH | prepend |  |