Tom (pattern matching language)

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Tom
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

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