Tea is a

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for the

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environment. It combines features of

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, and

Features

* Integrated support for all major programming paradigms. **

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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. **

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processing. * 100% pure Java. ** The Tea interpreter is implemented in Java. ** Tea runs anywhere with a Java 1.6

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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

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, regular expressions through

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, and an

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

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, provides an alternative by generating Java code based on the Tea code. TeaClipseTeaClipse
/ref> is an open-source compiler that uses a JavaCC-generated parser to parse and then compile Tea source to the proprietary Tea bytecode.

References

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External links

Tea Home Page

"destea" code converter
Scripting languages Programming languages High-level programming languages Programming languages created in 1997