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TOM object-oriented is an open source programming language created in 1999.

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TOM was an object-oriented programming language developed in the 1990s that built on the lessons learned from Objective-C. The main purpose of TOM was to allow for "unplanned reuse" of code via a well-developed extension mechanism. This concept was introduced seemingly by accident in Objective-C and later proved to be of wide use, and was applied aggressively in TOM. Read more on Wikipedia...


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implementation class HelloWorld int main Array argv { [[[stdio out] print "Hello, world!"] nl]; } end; implementation instance HelloWorld end;

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