Since Groovy 2.0, the Groovy language offers the ability to type check your code at compile time. Type checking is a nice feature for people who come from a strongly typed language world and do not feel comfortable with dynamic typing. On the other hand, Groovy is also a perfect …
Nemerle is one of the very few languages that can be extended by developers. Nemerle macros allow extending language syntax and automate routine operations that developers face every day and cannot solve by using traditional techniques to achieve reusability. Also, we will discuss DSL oriented and language oriented programming.
Hadoop is a MapReduce framework that has literally sprung into the vernacular of “big data” developers everywhere. But coding to the raw Hadoop APIs can be a real chore. Data analysts can express what they want in more English-like vocabularies, but it seems the Hadoop APIs require us to be …
Xtext is a framework for development of programming languages and domain specific languages. It covers all aspects of a complete language infrastructure, from parsers, over linker, compiler or interpreter to fully-blown top-notch Eclipse IDE integration. Xtext makes it easy to create domain specific languages (DSL). Xtext 2.0 adds some critical …
This is a talk on DSL purpose, design, and construction. There’s a lot of FUD for and against DSL’s, and hopefully this presentation will cut through a lot of the B.S. and present the costs and benefits in a straightforward and intellectually honest manner with a pinch of sarcastic humor …
Ruby’s success in several domains is arguably due to domain-specific languages (DSLs) that generate code: we have tools that generate HTML, CSS, and Javascript, and so we get to write web applications in ruby; ditto SQL and database applications. There are some less well known examples in the simulation and …
