Ring

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...

Ring website
Ring Wikipedia page
There are at least 195 Ring repos on GitHub
Ring first developed in King Saud University
file extensions for Ring include ring, rh and rform
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

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

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

Ring - Programming language

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