Tom (programming language)

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Tom is a programming language particularly well-suited for programming various transformations on tree structures 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.[1] The rules can be controlled using a strategy language.

Tom
Stable release
2.10 / 2013-03-21
Operating systemCross-platform
Typeprogram transformation language
LicenseGPL, BSD licenses
Websitehttp://tom.loria.fr/

Tom is good for:

  • programming by pattern matching
  • developing compilers and DSL
  • transforming XML documents
  • implementing rule based systems
  • describing algebraic transformations

Notes

  1. ^ Emilie Balland, Paul Brauner, Radu Kopetz, Pierre-Etienne Moreau, and Antoine Reilles (April 2008). "Tom Manual" (PDF).{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)