Boron is an open source programming language created in 2009 by Karl Robillard.
| #1519on PLDB | 15Years Old |
Boron is a scripting language similar to REBOL. The interpreter is a C library which may be copied under the terms of the LGPLv3.
| Feature | Supported | Example | Token |
|---|---|---|---|
| Threads | ✓ | ||
| Strings | ✓ | "Hello world" {He said "That looks good!"} | " { } {{ }} |
| Multiline Strings | ✓ | {{ Line 1 Line 2 }} | |
| MultiLine Comments | ✓ | /* A comment */ | /* */ |
| Print() Debugging | ✓ | print probe | |
| Lists | ✓ | my-list: [1 two 3.0 "four"] | |
| Line Comments | ✓ | ; A comment | ; |
| Homoiconicity | ✓ | ||
| Garbage Collection | ✓ | ||
| Exceptions | ✓ | catch [throw 22 print "You'll never see this."] if error? try [read %does_not_exist] [print "File not found"] | |
| Comments | ✓ | ||
| Disk Output | ✓ | write %helloworld.txt "Hello, world!^/" | |
| Shebang | ✓ | #!/usr/bin/env boron |