Ring - Programming language

Ring is an open source programming language created in 2016 by Mahmoud Fayed.

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Ring is a dynamic and general-purpose programming language. It can be embedded in C/C++ projects, extended using C/C++ code and/or used as a standalone language. The supported programming paradigms are imperative, procedural, object-oriented, functional, Meta programming, declarative programming using nested structures, and natural programming. Read more on Wikipedia...

Tags: programming language
There are at least 195 Ring repos on GitHub
Early development of Ring happened in King Saud University
The Google BigQuery Public Dataset GitHub snapshot shows 3 users using Ring in 3 repos on GitHub
Explore Ring snippets on Rosetta Code
Ring appears in the TIOBE Index
GitHub supports syntax highlighting for Ring
ring-lang.net was registered in 2016
See also: (9 related languages) C, Linux, Lua, Python, Ruby, C#, BASIC, QML, xBase
5 PLDB concepts link to Ring: Adept, cloc, Eiffel, RapidBatch, Zig

Example from hello-world:

see "Hello World"

Example from Linguist:

New App
{
        I want window
        The window title = "hello world"
}

Class App

        func geti
                if nIwantwindow = 0
                        nIwantwindow++
                ok

        func getwant
                if nIwantwindow = 1
                        nIwantwindow++
                ok

        func getwindow
                if nIwantwindow = 2
                        nIwantwindow= 0
                        see "Instruction : I want window" + nl
                ok
                if nWindowTitle = 0
                        nWindowTitle++
                ok

        func settitle cValue
                if nWindowTitle = 1
                        nWindowTitle=0
                        see "Instruction : Window Title = " + cValue + nl
                ok

        private

                # Attributes for the instruction I want window
                        i want window
                        nIwantwindow = 0
                # Attributes for the instruction Window title
                # Here we don't define the window attribute again
                        title
                        nWindowTitle = 0
                # Keywords to ignore, just give them any value
                        the=0

Language features

Feature	Supported	Example	Token
Strings	✓	"Hello world"	"
Line Comments	✓	# A comment	#
Comments	✓
Semantic Indentation	X