Reia Programming Language

From Reia

Reia (pronounced RAY-uh) is a Ruby/Python-like scripting language for the Erlang virtual machine (BEAM). Reia aims to expose all the features and functionality of Erlang in a language more familiar to programmers of scripting languages, while improving string handling, regular expressions, linking with external libraries, and other tasks which are generally considered outside the scope of Erlang. Reia is distributed under the MIT License.

If you're interested in trying out Reia, check out Reia on Github for the latest code (and also the issue tracker), and don't forget to sign up for the Google Group. You can also visit us on IRC at irc.freenode.net #reia.

Contents 1 Examples 2 Background 3 Getting Started 4 Language reference 4.1 Core language 4.2 Object orientation 4.3 Standard Library 5 Hackers Guide 6 Contributing to the project

Examples

Reia example programs are available at:

http://github.com/tarcieri/reia/tree/master/examples

Background

• Philosophy
• Roadmap
• FAQ
• Why Reia?
• Visual identity

Getting Started

• Getting the sources
• Building Reia
• Installing Reia
• Quickstart / Tutorial

Language reference

Core language

• Modules and functions
• Data types
• Operators
• Flow control
• Lambdas and blocks
• Pattern matching
• List comprehensions
• Exceptions
• Processes
• Linking
• Erlang interfacing

Object orientation

• Classes and objects
• Methods
• Inheritance

Standard Library

• ODBC
• System
• TCPSocket

Hackers Guide

• Implementation Overview
• Compiler

Contributing to the project

• Feature suggestions
• Reia Coding Conventions
• To-do list
• Contribution Wishlist