"Soon after the article in Dr. Dobb's, we received several messages about Lua. One of the first messages was the following:"
From: Bret Mogilefsky <mogul@lucasarts.com>
To: "'lua@icad.puc-rio.br'" <lua@icad.puc-rio.br>
Subject: LUA rocks! Question, too.
Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 13:21:41 -0800
Hi there...
After reading the Dr. Dobbs article on Lua I was very eager to check it
out, and so far it has exceeded my expectations in every way! It's
elegance and simplicity astound me. Congratulations on developing such
a well-thought out language.
Some background: I am working on an adventure game for the LucasArts
Entertainment Co., and I want to try replacing our older adventure game
scripting language, SCUMM, with Lua.
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"Soon after the article in Dr. Dobb's, we received several messages about Lua. One of the first messages was the following:"
http://www.lua.org/history.html