Tea (programming language)
Tea is a high-level scripting language for the Java environment. It combines features of Scheme, Tcl, and Java.
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.
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 is an open-source compiler that uses a JavaCC-generated parser to parse and then compile Tea source to the proprietary Tea bytecode.