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Wed, 02 Apr 2003
Language Centric Software Development == Metalinguistic Abstraction
Joe Gregario's post on E4X (ECMAScript for XML) refers to his article on Language-Centric Software Development, where he describes the role of embedded languages (focusing mostly on scripting). His conclusion:
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When developing a piece of software concentrate on building a languge to solve problems in the domain you are working in. No one fixed language can solve every problem so build a customized language just for that domain.Abelson and Sussman's Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs calls this Metalinguistic abstraction. This observation is the reason that I keep yammering on about Lisp style macros. In a language with good macros, E4X is a bunch of macros, not an extension that will require hacking on the interpreter and a round through the ECMA committee.
Everything old is new again:
http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisp.html
Posted by Bill de hÓra at Thu Apr 3 15:48:05 2003
http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisp.html
Posted by Bill de hÓra at Thu Apr 3 15:48:05 2003
My copy of SICP is dated 1985. My copy of On Lisp is dated 1994...
Posted by Ted Leung at Thu Apr 3 16:01:58 2003
Posted by Ted Leung at Thu Apr 3 16:01:58 2003
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