Programming with ooc

Welcome to the Programming with ooc book. This is the first comprehensive effort to cover the entirety of the ooc language, among with a collection of idioms, in order to allow the general public to discover the language.

About ooc

A llama, the mascot of ooc

ooc is a modern, self-hosting, object-oriented, functional-ish, high-level, low-level sexy programming language, starring closures, interfaces, enums, garbage collection.. It strives to be powerful, modular, extensible, portable, yet simple and fast.

The main implementation ooc is rock, a self-hosting compiler which translates ooc sources to C source code, and then use a C compiler to produce an executable.

Getting Started

Where to get a compiler, how to compile the source, all answered here:

• Basic ooc — Read Me First!
• Finding and Installing ooc
• Building an ooc program

Language Features

• Control Structures
• Type System
• Strings
• Modules and packages
• Input Output
• Classes
• Interfaces
• Covers
• Exceptions
• Generics
• Memory Management
• Coding Standards

External Resources

• ooc-lang — official ooc website
• crowbar central — everything ooc, the author's blog
• mailing list — the ooc mailing list
• rock — rock, an ooc compiler