Roberto Ierusalimschy | |
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 Ierusalimschy speaking at Lua conference in Moscow, 2017 | |
| Born | 21 May 1960 Brazil |
| Education | Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) |
| Known for | Lua |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer Science Programming Languages |
| Institutions | Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) |
| Thesis | O=M : uma linguagem orientada a objetos para desenvolvimento rigoroso de programas (in Portuguese) (1990) |
| Doctoral advisor | Carlos José Pereira de Lucena |
Roberto Ierusalimschy (Brazilian Portuguese: [ʁoˈbɛʁtu jeɾuzaˈlĩski]; born 21 May 1960) is a Brazilian computer scientist, known for creating the Lua programming language. 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 of informatics. He did a post-doc at University of Waterloo in 1992[1] and was visiting professor at Stanford University in 2012.[2] He is the leading architect and the author of Programming in Lua.[3] He also created LPeg, a Lua library for implementing parsing expression grammars.[4]
In 2021, Roberto created Building a Programming Language, a project-based learning program where students learn how to build a programming language from scratch.
