Hello World (Lua)

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Lua is a language that is designed to be an embedded scripting language. A not-so-simple Hello World program might be:

<<hello.lua>>=
-- hello.lua
-- the first program in every language
io.write("Hello world, from ",_VERSION,"!\n")

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