Comments on: A domain-specific language for … interval workouts http://technogility.sjcarriere.com/2009/01/26/25/ Thoughts on how architecture, process and technology should enable business (and other miscellany) Sun, 10 Oct 2010 11:08:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: jeromyc http://technogility.sjcarriere.com/2009/01/26/25/#comment-8 Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:23:20 +0000 http://technogility.sjcarriere.com/?p=25#comment-8 Yep, Lisp is a really nice language for building DSLs, based on what I’ve read/seen. But now I’ve got some nice ideas to improve my version – there are a lot of potential improvements… stay tuned.

]]> By: sokoloff http://technogility.sjcarriere.com/2009/01/26/25/#comment-7 Mon, 26 Jan 2009 23:49:56 +0000 http://technogility.sjcarriere.com/?p=25#comment-7 When I think of the utility of a DSL, a significant measure is succinctness. (Unfortunately, the example above looks like it’s calling pre-packaged subroutines in an API rather than a true DSL.) If you ignore the parens, the following feels a lot more DSL-y to me:

[Jeromy: I couldn't get Jim's code to show up here, so I embedded in an update to the post.]

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