Qore (programming language)

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Qore is an interpreted, high-level, general-purpose, garbage collected dynamic programming language, featuring support for code embedding and sandboxing with optional strong typing and a focus on fundamental support for multithreading and SMP scalability.

Qore is unique because it is an interpreted scripting language with fundamental support for

Executable Qore scripts on Unix-like operating systems will typically start with a hashbang to specify the filename of the interpreter as follows:

#!/usr/bin/env qore

Syntax

Qore syntax is similar to and inspired from the following programming languages:^[2]

• Perl: without %new-style, Qore's syntax is highly similar to Perl; the foreach statement, splice, push, pop, chomp operators, Perl5-compatible regular expressions, and more
• Java: with %new-style, Qore code looks more similar to Java;^[3] the synchronized keyword, the instanceof operator, object and class implementation
• C++: multiple inheritance, exception handling, static methods, abstract methods
• D: the on_exit, on_success, and on_error statements provide exception-aware functionality similar to D's scope(exit), scope(failure), allowing exception-aware cleanup code to be placed next to the code requiring cleanup
• Haskell
  : the map, foldl, foldr, and select operators with lazy evaluation of functional and list operators and statements

Data Types

Basic types include: boolean, string, integer, float, date, binary,^[4] list, hash (associative arrays), and object,^[5] as well as code code for code used as a data type.^[6]

Complex types are also supported such as hash<string, bool>, list<string>, reference<list<string>> as well as type-safe hashes.

Multithreading

Despite being an interpreted language, Qore was designed to support

Threading functionality in Qore is provided by the operating system's POSIX threads library.

Garbage Collection

Qore features a unique garbage collection approach called prompt collection that allows destructors to be run immediately when objects go out of scope, even if they have recursive references back to themselves. This allows for Qore to support the

Qore was designed to support embedding and sandboxing logic in applications; this also applies to applications written in Qore as well as applications using the Qore library's public C++ API. By using the Program class which represents a logic container with sandboxing controls, discrete objects can be created and destroyed at runtime containing embedded code to extend or modify the behavior of your application in user-defined ways.[8]

Runtime Library

Qore's standard runtime library supports data mapping, APIs for communicating with databases (including high-level APIs for SQL operations, schema management, and DBA actions), client APIs and server infrastructure implementations for many protocols including

Qore supports testing through the QUnit module which facilitates automated testing and Continuous integration processes for code written in Qore.

Availability

Qore's

External links

• Official website
• Qore Wiki (github.com)
• Qore for the Perl Programmer (houston.pm.org)
• openSUSE (software.opensuse.org)
• NetBSD (ftp.netbsd.org)
• FreeBSD (portsmon.freebsd.org)