Roberto Ierusalimschy (; born May 21, 1960) is a Brazilian computer scientist, known for creating the
Lua programming language
Lua ( ; from meaning ''moon'') is a lightweight, high-level, multi-paradigm programming language designed primarily for embedded use in applications. Lua is cross-platform, since the interpreter of compiled bytecode is written in ANSI C, ...
. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the
Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro where he has an appointment as a
full professor
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of
informatics. He did a post-doc at
University of Waterloo
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in 1992 and was visiting professor at
Stanford University in 2012. He is the leading architect and the author of ''Programming in Lua''.
[Four editions: first ; second ; third ; and fourth .] He also created LPeg, a Lua library for implementing
parsing expression grammar
In computer science, a parsing expression grammar (PEG) is a type of analytic formal grammar, i.e. it describes a formal language in terms of a set of rules for recognizing strings in the language. The formalism was introduced by Bryan Ford in 200 ...
s.
In 2021, Roberto created Building a Programming Language, a
project-based learning
Project-based learning (PBL) is a student-centered pedagogy that involves a dynamic classroom approach in which it is believed that students acquire a deeper knowledge through active exploration of real-world challenges and problems. Students le ...
program where students learn how to build a programming language from scratch.
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1960 births
Brazilian computer scientists
Brazilian Jews
Living people
People from Rio de Janeiro (city)
Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro alumni
Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro faculty
Programming language designers
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