Friday, February 13, 2004

Martin Fowler on Domain Specific Languages. Martin Fowler on DSLs... I've always used the analogy of creating a DSL to help think about building up a design - developing classes and methods with an eye to making them be a DSL. As much as possible I do this within the language I'm using, but if I can't I'm very ready to switch to code generation. At ThoughtWorks we've used code generation and similar techniques widely on our larger systems. The point at which I pull the separate language DSL lever is clearly different between languages. I never really felt the need in Smalltalk to use a separate language, while it's quite common in C++/Java/C#. [Lambda the Ultimate] 4:31:14 PM     Udell: Programs that write programs. Worth a look. Jon Bentley in Bumper-Sticker Computer Science quotes Dick Sites as saying I'd rather write programs to write programs than write programs. For some reason I remembered this quote as saying I'd rather write programs to write programs to write programs than write programs to write programs. But maybe that's just me... [Lambda the Ultimate] 4:29:27 PM

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