Boomerang (programming language)
| Developer | Nate Foster, Benjamin C. Pierce, and Michael Greenberg88 | ||||
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| First appeared | 2008 | ||||
| 0.2 / September 2, 2009 | |||||
| OS | Linux, Mac OS X | ||||
| Website |
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Boomerang is a programming language for writing lenses—well-behaved bidirectional transformations —that operate on ad-hoc, textual data formats.
Boomerang grew out of the Harmony generic data synchronizer, which grew out of the Unison file synchronization project.
References
- Aaron Bohannon, J. Nathan Foster, Benjamin C. Pierce, Alexandre Pilkiewicz, and Alan Schmitt. Boomerang: Resourceful Lenses for String Data. In ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL), San Francisco, California, January 2008. full text
- J. Nathan Foster, Alexandre Pilkiewcz, and Benjamin C. Pierce. Quotient Lenses. To appear in ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP), Victoria, British Columbia, September, 2008. full text alternately host