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Creating DSLs in Oslo

Presented by Amanda Laucher on Aug 29, 2009 Length 00:44:35
Sections
Development,
Architecture & Design
Topics
.NET ,
Domain Specific Languages
Tags
QCon ,
Oslo ,
QCon London 2009
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Summary
Amanda Laucher talks about Oslo and its tools, Intellipad, M.exe – the M Compiler, MB.exe – MGrammar Compiler, and how they can be used to create a DSL. She demonstrates the creation of a demo DSL in Oslo.

Bio
Amanda Laucher is a software developer/architect focusing on Microsoft technologies. She is currently based in Columbus, OH and working with The Sophic Group.

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check out www.collibra.com by Amarnath Palavalli Posted
Pauses by Jules Jacobs Posted
Re: Pauses by Diana Plesa Posted
Microsoft OSLO vs. Eclipse EMF by Jean Bezivin Posted
Re: Microsoft OSLO vs. Eclipse EMF by Lars Corneliussen Posted
Myth of DSL by peter lin Posted
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    check out www.collibra.com

    by Amarnath Palavalli

    M language seems to very complex.

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    Pauses

    by Jules Jacobs

    The video pauses every two seconds, making it very hard watch. Is it possible to download it completely before playing?

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    Microsoft OSLO vs. Eclipse EMF

    by Jean Bezivin

    Microsoft OSLO and Eclipse EMF are two promising and comparable technical spaces. Would be interesting to bridge them so than OSLO-models and EMF-models may be exchanged. A project to build such a bridge is mentioned in : bit.ly/DImMG

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    Myth of DSL

    by peter lin

    Having worked on and built DSL, there's a unspoken myth that anyone can make a DSL. Honestly, my experience tells me language design/implementation is best left to people who understand the theory and practice. Oslo is an interesting concept, but there's a downside.

    To really design and implement a language, the developer needs to understand abstract syntax tree (AST) and how they work. I've met people that designed language using GUI tools and never make that leap. As a result, the language they created were full of flaws and horribly broken.

    my bias 2 bits.

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    Re: Pauses

    by Diana Plesa

    Hello Jules,

    I double checked the video in both Firefox and IE and it works fine. It might have been your internet connection...

    Diana (InfoQ)

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    Re: Microsoft OSLO vs. Eclipse EMF

    by Lars Corneliussen

    There have been a few people engaging with EMF +/vs. Oslo. For Microsoft it is interesting too, but still not interesting enough to invest in it.

    startbigthinksmall.wordpress.com/2008/11/12/ope...

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