Tom (programming language)

Tom

Developer(s)	INRIA
Stable release	2.10[1] / 2013-03-21
Type	program transformation language
License	GPL, BSD licenses
Website	tom.loria.fr

Tom is a programming language^[2] 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^[3] as well as support for rewrite rules systems.^[4] The rules can be controlled using a strategy^[5] language.

Tom is good for:

• programming by pattern matching^[6]
• developing compilers and domain-specific languages (DSL)
• transforming XML documents
• implementing rule-based systems
• describing algebraic transformations

References

1. https://gforge.inria.fr/frs/?group_id=78&release_id=7940 ^{[dead link]}
2. "Freecode".
3. Java Community News Tom: A Pattern-Matching Compiler for Java
4. Emilie Balland, Paul Brauner, Radu Kopetz, Pierre-Etienne Moreau and Antoine Reilles (April 2008). "Tom Manual" (PDF).
5. "Data structure traversal with Tom". 4 April 2008.
6. "Pattern Matching Pointers".

External links

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