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Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> writes:
[...]
> You might want Lua to run in a C89 project.
[...]

According to Lua's documentation:

    Building Lua should be straightforward because Lua is implemented in
    pure ANSI C and compiles unmodified in all known platforms that have
    an ANSI C compiler.

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