Ruby, DSLs and the free lunch that was not so free
The world of IT is embarking, I suspect, on a another period of language creation hype. This time, the hype epicenter is Ruby and the facilities it provides to create custom languages.
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DSL's
Sean sits back and thinks again.Enlightening. Thought provoking. I'm unsure if his assumption about the majority using IDE's is true, or perhaps its just that I am one of those grey haired types that still uses emacs
Pity it has to be surrounded by the glare and pop-ups of itworld
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I agree, I really wish these young-guns would stop trying to reinvent the wheel. We have a system that works, there is no need to go creating new things and thinking new thoughts. Experimentation is dangerous, especially in software. Do you think the Lunar Rover would have gone anywhere if it was powered by Ruby, no! Of course not! We have excellent tools built by an excellent company (Microsoft) they know what we should use and how we should use it. God bless america!Language workbenches
How does this fit with the notion of a language workbench that Fowler, among others, has proposed? In the Intentional Software demo, they show an example of electrical engineers creating circuit diagrams directly in the tool, which are then converted to a central metamodel.