Tea (programming language): Difference between revisions

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* Integrated support for all major programming paradigms.

** [[Functional programming]] language.

** Functions are first class objects.

** Scheme-like closures are intrinsic to the language.

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** Database access.

** [[XML]] processing.

** Java reflection features allow the use of Java libraries directly from Tea code.

* 100% Pure Java.

** The Tea interpreter is implemented in Java.

** Tea runs anywhere with a Java 1.15 [[Java virtual machine|JVM]] or higher.

* Intended to be easily extended in Java. For example, Tea supports relational database access through [[JDBC]], regular expressions through [[GNU]] [[Regexp]], and an [[XML]] parser through a [[SAX]] parser (XML4J for example).