Ring

Paradigm	Multi-paradigm: object-oriented, imperative, functional, procedural, reflective, declarative, natural language programming
Designed by	Mahmoud Fayed
Developer	The Ring Development Team
First appeared	January 25, 2016; 2 years ago (2016-01-25)
Stable release	1.9 / October 6, 2018; 2 months ago (2018-10-06)
Typing discipline	Dynamic, weak
Implementation language	C (primarily; some components C++)
OS	Linux, macOS and Microsoft Windows
License	MIT License
Filename extensions	.ring, .rh, .rform
Website	http://ring-lang.net
Influenced by
Lua, Python, Ruby, C, C#, BASIC, QML, xBase, Supernova[1]
Ring at Wikibooks

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, declarative using nested structures, and natural programming. The language is portable (Windows, Linux, macOS, Android, etc.) and can be used to create console, GUI, web, game and mobile applications.^{[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11]}

History

• In November 2011, the idea of the new language was conceived.
• In Sept. 2013, the design and the implementation was started.
• In April 2015, the language name was selected.
• In May 2015, the compiler was implemented.
• In Sept. 2015, the documentation was done.
• In January 2016, Ring 1.0 was released.
• In October 2016, Ring 1.1 was released.
• In January 25, 2017, Ring 1.2 was released.
• In May 15, 2017, Ring 1.3 was released.
• In June 29, 2017, Ring 1.4 was released.
• In August 21, 2017, Ring 1.5 was released.
• In November 30, 2017, Ring 1.6 was released.
• In January 25, 2018, Ring 1.7 was released.
• In June 25, 2018, Ring 1.8 was released.
• In October 6, 2018, Ring 1.9 was released.

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Goals

• Applications programming language.
• Productivity and developing high quality solutions that can scale.
• Small and fast language that can be embedded in C/C++ projects.
• Simple language that can be used in education and introducing Compiler/VM concepts.
• General-Purpose language that can be used for creating domain-specific libraries, frameworks and tools.
• Practical language designed for creating the next version of the Programming Without Coding Technology software.

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Hello World program

The same program can be written using different styles. Here is an example of the standard "Hello, World!" program using three different styles.

The first style:

See "Hello, World!"

The second style:

Put "Hello, World!"

The third style:

Load "stdlib.ring"
Print("Hello, World!")

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References

External links

• Ring home page
• Japanese translated Ring 1.7 documents (unofficial)