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Language Workbench Challenge Roundup
Angelo Hulshout presents what problem the participants to this year’s Code Generation language workbench challenge had to tackle, their solutions, difficulties encountered, and lessons learned.
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clojure @ runa :: dynamic pricing through DSLs
Amit Rathore discusses DSLs in Clojure along with an example of using Clojure to provide real-time dynamic pricing for online retailers at Runa.
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Testing Domain-Specific Languages
Lennart Kats introduces Spoofax, a language for testing the syntax and semantics of domain-specific languages, enabling the creation of test cases using fragments of the language being tested.
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It's More than Just the Language
Lúcio Ferrão talks about making the software appealing to the business by using a visual language and an integrated environment supporting the entire life cycle of application development.
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Easy as Pie? - Teaching Code Literacy
Sarah Allen talks on how to introduce children to the basics of programming, presenting a new related language called “Pie” along with lessons learned from creating a DSL in Ruby.
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Why Program by Hand in Five Days what You Can Spend Five Years of Your Life Automating?
Terence Parr discusses using automation tools including DSLs to automate the software creation process as much as possible in order to increase output, effectiveness, correctness and velocity.
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Type Systems for DSLs
Markus Völter discusses what type systems are and some of the typing rules usually needed for DSLs, exemplifying the concepts with Xtext and MPS.
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Complex Event Processing: DSL for High Frequency Trading
Richard Tibbetts discusses Complex Event Processing in the context of High Frequency Trading and the advantages of using high level DSLs, followed by the case study of a system built with StreamBase.
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MDSD on the iPhone
Heiko Behrens shows how to create an iPhone domain specific language using model-driven software development.
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Textual Modeling Tools: Overview and Penalty Shoot-out
Bernhard Merkle discusses the various types of DSLs, and compares different language workbenches by using them with the same custom DSL in order to outline the differences between them.
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DSL Evolution for Groovy Developers
Peter Bell explains DSLs, how to approach writing one, and especially how to evolve one over time using "fixing the API", "backwards compatibility", "versioning" and "automated evolution/checking”.
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Groovy.DSLs (from: beginner, to: expert)
Paul King and Guillaume Laforge present Groovy’s capabilities to build DSLs through several concrete examples meant to highlight the language’s good support for creating internal DSLs.