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Roberto Ierusalimschy, a Common card
Roberto Ierusalimschy is a Brazilian computer scientist, known for creating the Lua programming language.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 43
- DEF
- 13
- Power
- 56
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 13,000
Power 56 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 5 % of WikiCards cards.
Roberto Ierusalimschy quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Roberto Ierusalimschy card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He is the leading architect and the author of ______ in Lua.
Answer
Programming. He is the leading architect and the author of Programming in Lua. From the Roberto Ierusalimschy article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Roberto Ierusalimschy. Roberto Ierusalimschy 43 · Albert Pézard 39 · Eduard Raehlmann 36 · ZFP28 zinc finger protein 20 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Roberto Ierusalimschy. Roberto Ierusalimschy 13,000 · Equilibrium point 8,200 · Albert Pézard 140 · ZFP28 zinc finger protein 68 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- 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 and was visiting professor at Stanford University in 2012.
- He is the leading architect and the author of Programming in Lua.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Roberto Ierusalimschy article was read about 13,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 43 and blocks with 13: each hit it takes is cut by 5 %.
How to get Roberto Ierusalimschy
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Roberto Ierusalimschy (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Lua in Moscow Conference https://lua.moscow/, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
