Tom (programming language)

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

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

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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