Archive for March, 2008

Using the Right Words

I presented this example into ThoughtWorks Melbourne GeekNight last week. Slides here.

The more I get interested on expressiveness in software development the more I feel the pain of using when a simple concept is encrypted into lots of noise. The most recent occurrence of this sad experience was some weeks ago when once again I […]

USENIX Conference Papers for Free

USENIX’s conference papers are now free. This means that we have a huge load to material on Domain-Specific Languages available to the mainstream public. Awesome!

Domain != Natural

Dave Thomas has a really nice post on what I think is the main issue when someone tries to create a Domain-Specific Language. I’ve seem this a dozen of times, someone says “This is a DSL because it reads like English”.

Let’s say that another way. Whenever domain experts communicate, they may seem to be speaking […]

Recent DSL Content @ InfoQ

In the last few weeks we got lots of Domain-Specific Language contents in one of the most important industry news portal, InfoQ.
Rick Kilmer talk’s video was released. Rick talks about Internal DSLs in Ruby. The most relevant part of the talk or me is that he divides Internal DSLs in two kinds: Implicit and Explicit. […]




About

You are currently browsing the Fragmental.tw weblog archives for the month March, 2008.

Longer entries are truncated. Click the headline of an entry to read it in its entirety.





Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.