Re: Lua as a "domain specific language"?

[PA <petite.abeille@...>]

On Mar 10, 2006, at 01:19, Thomas Wrensch wrote:

> Lua, along with Lisp, APL, and Smalltalk can be considered a Domain 
> Oriented Programming (DOP) language. That mostly means that it's 
> really good for building DSLs. (For more information check out Thomas 
> and Barry's paper at OOPSLA'03).

Thanks for the explanation and the links :)

Here the OOPSLA paper in case someone is interested:

"Model Driven Development – The Case for Domain Oriented Programming"
-- Dave Thomas and Brian M. Barry, October 2003
http://www.davethomas.net/papers/model_driven_development.pdf

Perhaps of interest as well:

"How and When to Develop Domain-Specific Languages?"
http://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp?forum=270&thread=151535
http://www.cwi.nl/ftp/CWIreports/SEN/SEN-E0517.pdf

Cheers

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