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Lua originated in 1993 as a language for extending software applications to meet the increasing demand for customization at the time. It provided the basic facilities of most procedural programming languages, but more complicated or domain-specific features were not included; rather, it included mechanisms for extending the language, allowing programmers to implement such features. As Lua was intended to be a general embeddable extension language, the designers of Lua focused on improving its speed, portability, extensibility and ease-of-use in development.

== WoW Lua

== WoW Lua ==

By the release of 3.3.5a, Blizzard had made various helpful modifications to its version of Lua.

=== Taint

=== Taint ===

In WoW Lua, each variable contains a taint value, a string that identifies the AddOn from where the variable originated.

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 Lua originated in 1993 as a language for extending software applications to meet the increasing demand for customization at the time. It provided the basic facilities of most procedural programming languages, but more complicated or domain-specific features were not included; rather, it included mechanisms for extending the language, allowing programmers to implement such features. As Lua was intended to be a general embeddable extension language, the designers of Lua focused on improving its speed, portability, extensibility and ease-of-use in development.
-== WoW Lua
+== WoW Lua ==
 By the release of 3.3.5a, Blizzard had made various helpful modifications to its version of Lua.
-=== Taint
+=== Taint ===
 In WoW Lua, each variable contains a taint value, a string that identifies the AddOn from where the variable originated.