Name Roberto Ierusalimschy | Role Author | |
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Books Programming in Lua, Lua 5.1 Reference Manual, Programming in Lua.2nd ed | ||
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Roberto Ierusalimschy ([ʁoˈbɛʁtu jeɾuzaˈlĩski]; born May 21, 1960) is a Brazilian computer scientist, known for creating Lua programming language. He holds a Ph.D in Computer Science from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro where he has an appointment as an associate professor of informatics. He did a post-doc at University of Waterloo in 1992 and was visiting professor at Stanford University in 2012. He is the leading architect and the author of Programming in Lua (ISBN 85-903798-1-7), Programming in Lua, Second Edition (ISBN 85-903798-2-5), Programming in Lua, Third Edition (ISBN 85-903798-5-X) and Programming in Lua, Fourth Edition (ISBN 978-8590379867). He is also responsible for creating a Lua library for implementing parsing expression grammars.