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# TAME Core
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Core library for TAME, providing generic abstractions for common
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operations.
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This library has accumulated a bit of cruft, is disorganized, and has
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not been substantially refactored to take advantage of new language
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features. It is a work in progress.
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## Features
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- BDD abstraction;
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- Classification match manipulation;
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- Common operations on numbers;
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- Conditional evaluation helpers;
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- Core primitive declarations;
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- Interpolation;
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- Interval mapping;
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- Matrix and vector manipulation;
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- Query matrices as data tables;
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- Value mappings; and
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- Other miscellaneous stuff.
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## What is TAME?
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TAME is The Adaptive Metalanguage, a programming language and system of tools
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designed to aid in the development, understanding, and maintenance of systems
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performing numerous calculations on a complex graph of dependencies,
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conditions, and a large number of inputs.
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This system was developed at R-T Specialty Buffalo to handle the complexity of
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comparative insurance rating systems. It is a domain-specific language (DSL)
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that itself encourages, through the use of templates, the creation of sub-DSLs.
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TAME itself is at heart a calculator—processing only numerical input and
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output—driven by quantifiers as predicates. Calculations and quantifiers are
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written declaratively without concern for order of execution.
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The system has powerful dependency resolution and data flow capabilities.
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TAME consists of a macro processor (implementing a metalanguage), numerous
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compilers for various targets (JavaScript, HTML documentation and debugging
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environment, LaTeX, and others), linkers, and supporting tools. The input
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grammar is XML, and the majority of the project (including the macro processor,
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compilers, and linkers) are written in XSLT. There is a reason for that odd
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choice; until an explanation is provided, know that someone is perverted enough
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to implement a full compiler stack in XSLT.
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## License
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This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it
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under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
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Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option)
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any later version.
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This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY
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WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
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PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
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