DSLs And Extension Languages

Presented at CocoaConf Columbus 2012. See the code on github

1. DSLs and Extension Languages Nothing New Under The Sun 1 Friday, August 10, 12
2. Hi I’m Josh Ask Questions 2 Friday, August 10, 12
3. You Will Not Leave Here Experts In Anything You Weren’t Expert In When You Arrived 3 Friday, August 10, 12
4. I am here to learn and have fun 4 Friday, August 10, 12
5. I think you are, too 5 Friday, August 10, 12
6. DSL Not About Telephony 6 Friday, August 10, 12
7. All Over The Place 7 Friday, August 10, 12
8. JARGON 8 Friday, August 10, 12
9. Adding Features to The Language 9 Friday, August 10, 12
10. No Real Definitions for what is/is not a DSL 10 Friday, August 10, 12
11. SQL is very popular 11 Friday, August 10, 12
12. Some DSLs are Turing Complete 12 Friday, August 10, 12
13. Most Are Not 13 Friday, August 10, 12
14. Most DSLs aren’t even really distinct Languages 14 Friday, August 10, 12
15. Y’all want a sweet? 15 Friday, August 10, 12
16. Shibboleths 16 Friday, August 10, 12
17. Extension Languages 17 Friday, August 10, 12
18. Allow Easy Extension 18 Friday, August 10, 12
19. TCL 19 Friday, August 10, 12
20. Lua is quite popular 20 Friday, August 10, 12
21. Not All Extension Languages are Turning Complete 21 Friday, August 10, 12
22. Like Lua 22 Friday, August 10, 12
23. Don’t Hate, I Love Lua 23 Friday, August 10, 12
24. That Last Slide was a Lie 24 Friday, August 10, 12
25. (Guile) 25 Friday, August 10, 12
26. Emacs Lisp 26 Friday, August 10, 12
27. Extension Languages allow for the whole to be greater than the sum of their parts 27 Friday, August 10, 12
28. Cocoa Doesn’t Need It 28 Friday, August 10, 12
29. See, another slide that is a Lie 29 Friday, August 10, 12
30. Cake! 30 Friday, August 10, 12
31. Many Books On The Subject 31 Friday, August 10, 12
32. Too, Too Many 32 Friday, August 10, 12
33. Martin Fowler’s Book 33 Friday, August 10, 12
34. Extension Languages? 34 Friday, August 10, 12
35. Not So Much 35 Friday, August 10, 12
36. You Don’t Have to Use YACC 36 Friday, August 10, 12
37. We’ll Talk About It 37 Friday, August 10, 12
38. Why Bother? 38 Friday, August 10, 12
39. Users 39 Friday, August 10, 12
40. Programmers 40 Friday, August 10, 12
41. Managers 41 Friday, August 10, 12
42. Customers 42 Friday, August 10, 12
43. Language Design is the Poetry of the Programmer 43 Friday, August 10, 12
44. Very Few Find Steady Work Writing It 44 Friday, August 10, 12
45. Most Had To Write Some In College 45 Friday, August 10, 12
46. Your Peers think It’s a Waste Of Time 46 Friday, August 10, 12
47. Code! 47 Friday, August 10, 12