More articles by Neal Ford
Neal Ford is software architect and meme wrangler at ThoughtWorks, a global IT consultancy with an exclusive focus on end-to-end software development and delivery of large-scale enterprise applications. He has also designed and developed instructional materials, magazine articles, courseware, video/DVD presentations, and is author and/or editor of five books, spanning a variety of technologies. He is an internationally acclaimed speaker, having spoken at over 100 developer conferences worldwide, and delivered more than 600 talks. Check out Neal's web site for more information. |
Building fluent programmatic interfaces lets users make calls in natural ways similar to speech.
Domain specific languages have been around since Lisp, and abound in the Unix world of "little languages." A convergence of research has recently brought domain specific languages to the forefront of both language and API design.
This article delves into the motivation, benefits, and challenges of writing applications using polyglot programming—leveraging the multi-language nature of the CLR to create simpler solutions to vexing problems.
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