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Colm is COmputer Language Machinery.
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Colm is a programming language designed for the analysis and transformation of
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computer languages.
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Colm is influenced primarily by TXL.
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Features:
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* Colm's main contribution lies in the parsing method.
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* Colm's parsing engine is generalized, but it also allows for the construction
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of arbitrary global data structures that can be queried during parsing. In
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other generalized methods, construction of global data requires some very
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careful consideration because of inherent concurrency in the parsing method.
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It is such a tricky task that it is often avoided altogether and the problem
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is deferred to a post-parse disambiguation of the parse forest.
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* By default Colm will create an elf executable that can be used standalone for
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that actual transformations.
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* Colm is a static and strong typed scripting language.
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* Colm is very tiny and fast and can easily be embedded/linked with c/cpp
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programs.
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* Colm's runtime is a stackbased VM that starts with the bare minimum of the
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language and bootstraps itself.
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