DSLs And Extension Languages

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DSLs and Extension Languages Nothing New Under The Sun 1 Friday, August 10, 12

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Hi I’m Josh Ask Questions 2 Friday, August 10, 12

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You Will Not Leave Here Experts In Anything You Weren’t Expert In When You Arrived 3 Friday, August 10, 12

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I am here to learn and have fun 4 Friday, August 10, 12

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I think you are, too 5 Friday, August 10, 12

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DSL Not About Telephony 6 Friday, August 10, 12

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All Over The Place 7 Friday, August 10, 12

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JARGON 8 Friday, August 10, 12

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Adding Features to The Language 9 Friday, August 10, 12

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No Real Definitions for what is/is not a DSL 10 Friday, August 10, 12

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SQL is very popular 11 Friday, August 10, 12

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Some DSLs are Turing Complete 12 Friday, August 10, 12

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Most Are Not 13 Friday, August 10, 12

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Most DSLs aren’t even really distinct Languages 14 Friday, August 10, 12

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Y’all want a sweet? 15 Friday, August 10, 12

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Shibboleths 16 Friday, August 10, 12

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Extension Languages 17 Friday, August 10, 12

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Allow Easy Extension 18 Friday, August 10, 12

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TCL 19 Friday, August 10, 12

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Lua is quite popular 20 Friday, August 10, 12

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Not All Extension Languages are Turning Complete 21 Friday, August 10, 12

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Like Lua 22 Friday, August 10, 12

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Don’t Hate, I Love Lua 23 Friday, August 10, 12

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That Last Slide was a Lie 24 Friday, August 10, 12

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(Guile) 25 Friday, August 10, 12

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Emacs Lisp 26 Friday, August 10, 12

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Extension Languages allow for the whole to be greater than the sum of their parts 27 Friday, August 10, 12

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Cocoa Doesn’t Need It 28 Friday, August 10, 12

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See, another slide that is a Lie 29 Friday, August 10, 12

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Cake! 30 Friday, August 10, 12

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Many Books On The Subject 31 Friday, August 10, 12

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Too, Too Many 32 Friday, August 10, 12

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Martin Fowler’s Book 33 Friday, August 10, 12

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Extension Languages? 34 Friday, August 10, 12

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Not So Much 35 Friday, August 10, 12

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You Don’t Have to Use YACC 36 Friday, August 10, 12

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We’ll Talk About It 37 Friday, August 10, 12

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Why Bother? 38 Friday, August 10, 12

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Users 39 Friday, August 10, 12

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Programmers 40 Friday, August 10, 12

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Managers 41 Friday, August 10, 12

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Customers 42 Friday, August 10, 12

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Language Design is the Poetry of the Programmer 43 Friday, August 10, 12

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Very Few Find Steady Work Writing It 44 Friday, August 10, 12

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Most Had To Write Some In College 45 Friday, August 10, 12

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Your Peers think It’s a Waste Of Time 46 Friday, August 10, 12

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Code! 47 Friday, August 10, 12