An Introduction to Dragon/Lessons/Features
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Features
The Dragon language comes with the next features
.. tip:: One of the main goals behind the first release is creating a useful language ready for production!
- Interpreted
- Declarative programming on the top of Object-Oriented programming
- No explicit end for statements (No ; or ENTER is required)
- Portable (Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Anroid and etc.)
- Comments (One line ,In-line & Multi-lines)
- Dynamic Typing
- Weakly typed
- Garbage Collector - Automatic Memory Management (Escape Analysis and Reference Counting)
- Structure Programming
- Rich control structures & Operators
- Procedures/Functions
- No Main Function
- Call Function before the definition
- Recursion
- Multi-line literals
- Reflection and Meta-programming
- Clear program structure (Statements then functions)
- Exception Handling
- I/O commands
- Math functions
- String functions
- Standard functions
- File processing functions
- Database support
- Create GUI Applications for Desktop