Tea (programming language)

<h2 id="features">Features</h2>
<ul><li>Integrated support for all major programming paradigms.
<ul><li><a href="/facts/Functional_programming/cdxqPEIM">Functional programming</a> language.</li>
<li>Functions are first-class objects.</li>
<li>Scheme-like closures are intrinsic to the language.</li>
<li>Support for object-oriented programming.</li></ul></li>
<li>Modular libraries with autoloading on-demand facilities.</li>
<li>Large base of core functions and classes.
<ul><li>String and list processing.</li>
<li>Regular expressions.</li>
<li>File and network I/O.</li>
<li>Database access.</li>
<li><a href="/facts/XML/clNgUfWk">XML</a> processing.</li></ul></li>
<li>100% pure Java.
<ul><li>The Tea interpreter is implemented in Java.</li>
<li>Tea runs anywhere with a Java 1.6 <a href="/facts/Java_virtual_machine/l9Nzrsun">JVM</a> or higher.</li>
<li>Java reflection features allow the use of Java libraries directly from Tea code.</li></ul></li>
<li>Intended to be easily extended in Java. For example, Tea supports relational database access through <a href="/facts/JDBC/uUVYg2sB">JDBC</a>, regular expressions through <a href="/facts/GNU/HlAKKBdt">GNU</a> <a href="/facts/Regexp/KFL3veHX">Regexp</a>, and an <a href="/facts/XML/clNgUfWk">XML</a> parser through a <a href="/facts/Simple_API_for_XML/BwGKJUru">SAX</a> parser (XML4J for example).</li></ul>
<h2 id="interpreter-alternatives">Interpreter alternatives</h2>
<p>Tea is a proprietary language. Its interpreter is subject to a non-free license. A project called "destea", which released as Language::Tea in <a href="/facts/CPAN/MB7Iv662">CPAN</a>, provides an alternative by generating Java code based on the Tea code.
</p><p>TeaClipse<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> is an open-source compiler that uses a JavaCC-generated parser to parse and then compile Tea source to the proprietary Tea bytecode.
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<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>
<ul><li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120116195952/http://www.pdmfc.com/tea/">Tea Home Page</a></li>
<li><a href="https://metacpan.org/module/Language::Tea">"destea" code converter</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>Hunter, Jason; Crawford, William (April 3, 2001). Java Servlet Programming: Help for Server Side Java Developers. "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". p. 423. ISBN 9780596000400 – via Internet Archive. tea programming language. <a href="9780596000400" target="_blank">9780596000400</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>Huynh, Khue; Razzaq, Leena (January 1, 2002). "A Distance learning system for Tea programming". Major Qualifying Projects (All Years). <a href="https://digitalcommons.wpi.edu/mqp-all/5348" target="_blank">https://digitalcommons.wpi.edu/mqp-all/5348</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:3"><p>TeaClipse <a href="https://code.google.com/p/teaclipse/" target="_blank">https://code.google.com/p/teaclipse/</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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