Ring/Lessons/Features

Features

The Ring language comes with the next features

.. tip:: One of the main goals behind the first release is creating a useful language ready for production!

• Free Open Source (MIT License)
• Interpreter - Hybrid Implementation (Compiler+VM)
• Declarative programming on the top of Object-Oriented programming
• No explicit end for statements (No ; or ENTER is required)
• A small language (Around 100,000 lines of code)

* The compiler + The Virtual Machine are 15,000 lines of C code * The other 85,000 lines of code are related to libraries! * 10,000 lines of C code * 50,000 lines of C++ code * 25,000 lines of Ring code

• Written in ANSI C (The code is generated)
• Developed using Visual Programming (PWCT)
• Optional Printing for Tokens/Grammar/Byte-Code during execution
• Portable (Windows, Linux & Mac OS X)
• Comments (One line & Multi-lines)
• Not Case-Sensitive
• Dynamic Typing
• Weakly typed
• Lexical Scoping (Global, Local & Object State)
• Default scope for variables inside functions (Local)
• Default scope for variables outside functions (global)
• Garbage Collector - Automatic Memory Management (Escape Analysis and Reference Counting)
• Structure Programming
• Rich control structures & Operators
• For in get item by reference not value, you can read/edit the item
• Use exit to go outside from more than one loop
• Procedures/Functions
• Main Function (optional)
• Call Function before the definition
• Recursion
• Multi-line literals
• Access (read/write) string letter by index
• The list index start by 1
• No keyword to end Functions/Classes/Packages
• Range operator ex: 1:10 and "a":"z"
• First Class Variables, Lists, Objects and Functions
• Store/Copy Lists/Objects by value (Deep Copy)
• Pass Lists/Objects by reference
• Native Object-Oriented Support

* Encapsulation * Setter/Getter (optional) * private state (optional) * Instantiation * Polymorphism * Composition * Inheritance (Single Inheritance) * Operator Overloading * Packages

• using { } to access objects and use attributes/methods as variables/functions
• Reflection and Meta-programming
• Clear program structure (Statements then functions then packages & classes)
• Exception Handling
• Eval() to execute code during run-time
• 8-bit clean, work on binary data directly
• I/O commands
• Math functions
• String functions
• List functions
• File processing functions
• Database support (ODBC & MySQL)
• Security Functions (OpenSSL)
• Internet Functions (LibCurl)
• CGI Library (Written in Ring)

* HTTP Get * HTTP Post * File upload * Cookies * URL Encode * HTML Templates * HTML Special Characters * HTML Generation using Functions * HTML Generation using Classes * CRUD Example (using MVC) * Users Example (Register, Login and Check)

• Extension using C/C++ (Simple API)
• Embedding the language in C/C++ programs
• Comes with code generator (Written in Ring) to quickly wrap C/C++ Libraries

* Used to Support Allegro by creating RingAllegro * Used to Support Qt by creating RingQt

• Create 2D Games (Using the Allegro Library)
• Create GUI Applications for Desktop and Mobile (Using the Qt Framework)