Boomerang (programming language)

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Boomerang is a programming language for writing lenses—well-behaved bidirectional transformations —that operate on ad-hoc, textual data formats.

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Boomerang
DeveloperNate Foster, Benjamin C. Pierce, and Michael Greenberg88
First appeared2008; 17 years ago (2008)
Stable release
0.2 / September 2, 2009; 15 years ago (2009-09-02)
OSLinux, Mac OS X
Websitewww.seas.upenn.edu/~harmony/
Influenced by
OCaml
Influenced
XSLT
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Boomerang grew out of the Harmony generic data synchronizer, which grew out of the Unison file synchronization project.

References

  • Aaron Bohannon, J. Nathan Foster, Benjamin C. Pierce, Alexandre Pilkiewicz, and Alan Schmitt. Boomerang: Resourceful Lenses for String Data. In ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL), San Francisco, California, January 2008. full text
  • J. Nathan Foster, Alexandre Pilkiewicz, and Benjamin C. Pierce. Quotient Lenses. To appear in ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP), Victoria, British Columbia, September, 2008. full text alternately host


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