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Monday, November 06, 2006

Diesels

Ralph Johnson writes...

...the Lisp people have been making DSLs for 20 years. I learned about them about 20 years ago, and the Lisp people had been doing it for 20 years before that, so I think they have been doing it for 40 years. Neverthless, DSLs are only starting to become a hot topic.
He also recommends Martin Fowler as a source (written and seen/spoken) for more information and suggests...
These are ideas that need to become ubiquitous.

1 comment:

Carl Gundel said...

Of course, Forth programmers have also been doing DSLs for a very long time. :-)

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