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.
by Neal Ford
March 3, 2009
t the JAOO conference in Aarhus, Denmark this year, domain specific languages came up in virtually every conversation; every keynote mentioned them, a lot of sessions discussed them (including a pre-conference workshop by Martin Fowler and myself), and you could hear "DSL" in most of the hallway conversations. Why this, and why now?
To hear some people talk, you'd think DSLs solve world hunger, cure cancer, and make software write itself (perhaps this is a bit of an exaggeration). DSLs are really nothing more than abstraction mechanisms. The current interest lies in the dawning realization that some abstractions resist easy representation in modern languages such as C#.
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t the JAOO conference in Aarhus, Denmark this year, domain specific languages came up in virtually every conversation; every keynote mentioned them, a lot of sessions discussed them (including a pre-conference workshop by Martin Fowler and myself), and you could hear "DSL" in most of the hallway conversations. Why this, and why now?
