Tom (programming language)

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Tom
Developer	INRIA
Stable release	2.10 / 2013-03-21
Type	program transformation language
License	GPL, BSD licenses
Website	tom.loria.fr

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. The rules can be controlled using a strategy language.

Tom is good for:

• programming by pattern matching
• developing compilers and domain-specific languages (DSL)
• transforming XML documents
• implementing rule-based systems
• describing algebraic transformations

References

External links

• Tom language website
• Tom gforge website
• Tutorial and Reference Manual