On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 7:29 AM, Dave Newton <davelnew...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 8:07 AM, Adam Hardy wrote: > > But for the future I am writing an app where the user can upload a file > of > > data and specify the input using that printf/scanf pattern description, > and > > output the same data into new file with a new format according to a > secocnd > > pattern. It's OHLC historical data from the financial markets, and it > must > > be in the correct format for importing into various different analysis > > programs. > > DSL. In fact a guy at the Clojure NYC meetup did this exact thing (for > financial data, in clojure) to generate all the Java APIs needed to > consume/write the data files. > For the sake of us poor, clueless lurkers, would you mind defining DSL in this context? All I can think of is DSL as in Internet service, but I can tell from context that it's not the right definition. Brian > > Groovy or JRuby might be a better choice depending on how averse you > are to toenail-based languages, but this is precisely the kind of > thing DSLs are good for, and it's a lot easier to remember a > human-readable DSL than the scanf spec, and it'd be easier to add > domain-specific data types. > > Dave > >
