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The hopl paper on lua seems to indicate it came out of a Brazil university. https://www.lua.org/doc/hopl.pdf


Indeed. It was created at PUC-Rio, my alma mater


Lua means moon in Portuguese! (cognate of Luna)


and there is also moonscript which transpiles to Lua!




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