IKSML is the future! IKSML is entreprise compliant! IKSML is a simple-yet-powerful functional language, with a XML syntax that makes it easy to read, parse, and store in your favorite database!

Sample term:

<apply>
  <apply>
     <fun><K/></fun>
     <fun><I/></fun>
  </apply>
  <fun><K/></fun>
</apply>

This nice XML blob represents a SKI term (cf http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SK_calculus ). To reduce it to a normal term, invoke IKSML.py <file.xml>. Enjoy!

Note: due to the lack of indexing and ASM inlining, the performance may be slightly lower than the equivalent code in C.