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Mira Pro Script is an extraordinarily powerful, yet easy to
use programming language for numerical image processing in science and
engineering. The Pro Script
module extends the Mira platform using an implementation of the
Lua Programming Language
as a scripting language.
- Lua provides a modern, versatile programming language and a fast, robust
processing engine that is easy to learn and use.
- Mira provides an extensive library of image processing and
analysis functions, plus a superior image processing GUI for development and prototyping.
- To interface Mira
and Lua, we created dozens of Lua classes, some 600 methods and functions, and
an efficient, effective development environment.
With Mira Pro Script, scientific and technical users with
even
modest experience in C, C++, Java, Perl, or even
Basic will find it surprisingly easy to write scripts that do serious
work. Lua provides a rich syntax with advanced capabilities that are there if
you need them, but not required if you don't. In addition, when used as a
scripting language, Lua has been shown to be one of the fastest available.
Note for Users Who have Programmed in C++ Lua
offers many features of a modern, object oriented language like C++. Yet its
syntax is simpler. Lua offers dynamic typing of variables, block control structures, loops, and
functions, as well as advanced concepts like associative sets,
lexical scoping, parameter overloading, and multiple return values. Lua is
extremely versatile; it can be used to script simple C-like procedures, or you can write scripts
that leverage an object oriented
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