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

Reply via email to