Boomerang (programming language)
Appearance
Developer | Nate Foster, Benjamin C. Pierce, and Michael Greenberg |
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First appeared | 2008 |
Stable release | 0.2
/ September 2, 2009 |
OS | Linux, Mac OS X |
Website | www |
Influenced by | |
OCaml | |
Influenced | |
XSLT |
Boomerang is a programming language for writing lenses—well-behaved bidirectional transformations —that operate on ad-hoc, textual data formats.
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 Pilkiewcz, 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