You can find teh BASIC module on hackage: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/BASIC
Download .tar.gz file and you can see the source. On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 3:16 AM, CK Kashyap <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Don, > > I read the PDF. I was not able to figure out how to get the BASIC module. > Wanted to see a reference implementation. > > The DSL I want to start with is a music generation DSL ... It should > generate a wave file > with music data as input -> for example the input could contain > C3 D3 E3 ... -> should output a wave file with those notes ... some kind of > mnemonics for tempo will also be there. > Later I'd like to incorporate parallel sequence generation -> where I could > get chord effect etc ... > I had done a rudimentary implementation in C a while back -> > http://kashyap-1978.tripod.com/Escapades/Goodies/Construct_WAV.html > > I'd appreciate it very much if you could give me some pointers on getting > started. > > Regards, > Kashyap > ________________________________ > From: Don Stewart <[email protected]> > To: CK Kashyap <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Sent: Mon, November 16, 2009 12:57:54 AM > Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] DSL in Haskell > > ck_kashyap: >> Hi All, >> I was reading a Ruby book and in that it was mentioned that its capability >> to >> dynamically query and modify classes makes it suitable for implementing >> DSL's >> ... I am referring to Ruby's reflection and methods like "method_missing" >> here. >> It can allow things like not having to define constants for all possible >> unicode code points etc...For example, first use of U0123 could bring such >> a >> constant definition into existence etc >> >> I see multiple search hits when I look for Haskell and DSL - can someone >> please >> point me to a good primer or explain to me how equivalent of above >> mentioned >> features in Ruby can be done in Haskell ... or the Haskell alternative for >> it. > > The Haskell equivalent would be overloading, primarily via type classes. > > See Lennart Augusston's BASIC for an example of this in the extreme: > > > http://augustss.blogspot.com/2009/02/more-basic-not-that-anybody-should-care.html > > That's BASIC syntax, in Haskell, relying on overloading numbers, strings > etc. And all statically typed. > > For a survey of some of the more recent EDSLs in Haskell, see this brief > overview, > > http://www.galois.com/~dons/papers/stewart-2009-edsls.pdf > > -- Don > > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > > _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
