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Place of Birth: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
About Roberto Ierusalimschy
- Roberto Ierusalimschy (Brazilian Portuguese: [?o'b??tu je?uza'liski]; born May 21, 1960) is a Brazilian computer scientist, known for creating the Lua programming language.
- He holds a Ph.D in Computer Science from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro where he has an appointment as an associate professor of informatics.
- He did a post-doc at University of Waterloo in 1992 and was visiting professor at Stanford University in 2012.
- He is the leading architect and the author of Programming in Lua.
- He also created LPeg, a Lua library for implementing parsing expression grammars.
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