Start with a tiny Lua program that stores a name and prints a greeting.

Hello Lua

hello.lua
local name = 
local message = "Hello, " .. name .. "!"

print(message)
local name = 
local message = "Hello, " .. name .. "!"

print(message)
local name = 
local message = "Hello, " .. name .. "!"

print(message)
print `print` writes a value so you can see what the program produced.