On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 6:14 AM, Felix Holmgren<[email protected]> wrote: > Well I also looked a bit at the videos from the hackathon now, and > understand Language Kit better :) > > One thing I haven't seen mentioned anywhere in the Etoile docs are > DSL:s. Granted, it's become a big hype, but I think DSL:s should have > a natural place in a modern computing system. I saw David referring to > COKE in one of the papers. Alan Kay' gang at the Viewpoints Research > Institute, which is behind COKE, is also creating some pretty > impressive DSL:s. Check this: www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2007008_steps.pdf > (esp. Apendix E!) > > So, yeah: the place of DSL:s in Etoile?
Well, for me DSL depends principally on the underlying language's expressivity, and Smalltalk (and to a certain extent Objective-C) are great languages from that aspect... Now we could have easier way to plug your own grammar into LK, maybe. David is probably the person to ask :) -- Nicolas Roard "I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." -- Douglas Adams _______________________________________________ Etoile-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-discuss
