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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