Tom (pattern matching language)
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Tom | |
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Latest release | 2.5 / 2007-07-09 |
OS | Cross-platform |
Genre | program transformation language |
License | GPL/BSD |
Website | http://tom.loria.fr/ |
Tom is a programming language particularly well-suited for programming various transformations on trees/terms and XML based documents. Tom is a language extension which adds new matching primitives to C and Java as well as support for rewrite rules systems. The rules can be controlled using a strategy language.
Tom is good for:
- programming by pattern matching
- developing compilers and DSL
- transforming XML documents
- implementing rule based systems
- describing algebraic transformations