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 | |
|---|---|
| Stable release | 2.6
/ 2008-11-04 |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Type | program transformation language |
| License | GPL/BSD |
| Website | http://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