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==Objective C successor==

'''TOM''' was an [[object oriented]] programming language developed in the [[1990s]] that built upon the lessons learned from [[Objective-C]]. The main purpose of TOM was to allow for "unplanned reuse" of code via a well-developed extension mechanism. This concept was introduced seemingly by accident in Objective C and later proved to be of wide use, and was applied with a vengeance in TOM.

The primary changes in TOM are the addition of multi-inheritance, ''tuples'' as a first-class part of the language, cleaner syntax, free of the [[C programming language|C]] requirements for header files and pre-compiler commands, and the ability to use ''categories'' (the re-use mechanism) to include anything.