{"id":2496,"date":"2021-08-07T19:26:17","date_gmt":"2021-08-07T13:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rangakrish.com\/?p=2496"},"modified":"2021-08-21T15:45:39","modified_gmt":"2021-08-21T10:15:39","slug":"first-encounter-with-the-ring-programming-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rangakrish.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/07\/first-encounter-with-the-ring-programming-language\/","title":{"rendered":"First Encounter with the Ring Programming Language"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Ring Programming Language<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, designed by Mahmoud Fayed,\u00a0 <\/span>has been around since 2016. I came to know of it quite accidentally two weeks ago when I received a promotional email from Apress<\/strong><\/em> about their book “Beginning Ring Programming”<\/strong><\/em> by Mansour Ayouni, published in 2020. I immediately did a google search about the language and finding it interesting, ordered the book. I am still going through the book.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The language seems to have many interesting features, but two things attracted my attention:<\/p>\n

* Natural language programming<\/p>\n

* Ease of embedding in C\/C++<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“Natural language programming”<\/strong><\/em> definitely sounds like great fun, but I am not a great fan of that idea. Personally, I prefer languages such as Mathematica’s<\/strong> Wolfram<\/strong><\/em><\/a> language whose claim to fame (among other things) is brevity and expressiveness.<\/p>\n

For those who are interested, this article<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by the author of Ring programming language discusses an example of Natural language programming<\/strong><\/em> in Ring<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

For the purpose of today’s article, I decided to explore the idea of embedding Ring<\/strong><\/em> in a C++<\/strong><\/em> program.<\/p>\n

First, I downloaded and installed the environment on my Windows<\/strong> <\/em>64-bit machine. Here is the directory structure after installation:<\/p>\n

\"Ring<\/a>
Ring Installation Directory<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I then created a new “Console C++ Project”<\/strong><\/em> in Visual Studio<\/strong><\/em> (mine is Visual Studio 2019, ver 16.10.4<\/strong><\/em>).<\/p>\n

Here is the main source file:<\/p>\n

\"Sample<\/a>
Sample Program<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The project settings must be updated with the following elements:<\/p>\n