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Tea (programming language)

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Tea
ParadigmMulti-paradigm: Functional, Object-oriented (class-based)
DeveloperJorge Nunes
First appeared1997 (1997)
WebsiteTea
Influenced by
Tcl, Java, Scheme

Tea is a high-level scripting language for the Java environment. It combines features of Scheme, Tcl, and Java.[1][2]

Features

  • Integrated support for all major programming paradigms.
    • Functional programming language.
    • Functions are first-class objects.
    • Scheme-like closures are intrinsic to the language.
    • Support for object-oriented programming.
  • Modular libraries with autoloading on-demand facilities.
  • Large base of core functions and classes.
    • String and list processing.
    • Regular expressions.
    • File and network I/O.
    • Database access.
    • XML processing.
  • 100% pure Java.
    • The Tea interpreter is implemented in Java.
    • Tea runs anywhere with a Java 1.6 JVM or higher.
    • Java reflection features allow the use of Java libraries directly from Tea code.
  • Intended to be easily extended in Java. For example, Tea supports relational database access through JDBC, regular expressions through GNU Regexp, and an XML parser through a SAX parser (XML4J for example).

Interpreter alternatives

Tea is a proprietary language. Its interpreter is subject to a non-free license. A project called "destea", which released as Language::Tea in CPAN, provides an alternative by generating Java code based on the Tea code.

TeaClipse[3] is an open-source compiler that uses a JavaCC-generated parser to parse and then compile Tea source to the proprietary Tea bytecode.

References

  1. ↑ Hunter, Jason; Crawford, William (April 3, 2001). Java Servlet Programming: Help for Server Side Java Developers. "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". p. 423. ISBN 9780596000400. https://archive.org/details/javaservletprogr00hunt_0. "tea programming language." 
  2. ↑ Huynh, Khue; Razzaq, Leena (January 1, 2002). "A Distance learning system for Tea programming.". Major Qualifying Projects (All Years). https://digitalcommons.wpi.edu/mqp-all/5348. 
  3. ↑ TeaClipse

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