On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 1:24 AM, Noah Tilton <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Rob, > > Sorry for the radio silence. I've been reading a bunch of books on the > topic of language design and writing rough code. Mostly the struggle comes > down to mapping the java API to the DSL syntax, and I haven't really hit on > the cleanest way to do this yet. >
Something I just ran across, in another Apache project: command line utilities for PDFBox: http://pdfbox.apache.org/commandlineutilities/index.html Not a DSL approach, of course, but if gives a sense of the kinds of operations they found useful for their users. > And debugging a DSL is hard! > For the programmer of the DSL, yes. But what can you do to make it easier for the user of the DSL? > That said, I'll check in some code this week. > Great. Enjoy your 4th of July holiday next week! -Rob > Thanks! > > On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi Noah, >> >> How is it going with the ODF Command Line tools? >> >> At some point I'll need to write up a mid-summer and final evaluation >> of your progress. It would help me a lot if you could post a summary >> of your progress and accomplishments, at least every other week. Of >> course, feel free to post a question or an idea to the list at any >> time. >> >> Thanks! >> >> -Rob > > -- > Noah
