I have no exposure to Lua. How is the library support for scientific computing?
Scientific libraries for Lua: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/388172/scientific-librari...
"A Primer of Scientific Computing in Lua" (book chapter in "Lua Gems" book), source code: http://code.google.com/p/luagems-numeric/downloads/list
LuaTex, an extended version of pdfTeX using Lua as an embedded scripting language: http://www.luatex.org/