Not that this has anything to do with your story, but Lua was originally written...

		bartonfink on July 12, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Do call yourself a programmer, and other career ad... Not that this has anything to do with your story, but Lua was originally written in Brazil because of governmental restrictions on imported software which precluded the use of more mainstream languages. They did, in fact, have special programming languages in Brazil.