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DSLs: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Sections
Development,
Architecture & Design
Topics
Architecture ,
Domain Specific Languages
Tags
Language Design ,
OOPSLA 2008 ,
Language Features ,
OOPSLA
 

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Summary
In this panel recorded during OOPSLA 2008, the panelists, Jeff Gray (moderator), Kathleen Fisher, Charles Consel, Gabor Karsai, Marjan Mernik, Juha-Pekka Tolvanen, talk about the benefits and drawbacks of using DSLs.

Bio
The panelists are: Jeff Gray (Moderator), University of Alabama at Birmingham, Kathleen Fisher, AT&T Labs, Charles Consel,University of Bordeaux and INRIA, Gabor Karsai, Vanderbilt University, Marjan Mernik, University of Maribor, Juha-Pekka Tolvanen, MetaCase.

About the conference
Starting in 1986, OOPSLA Conference has proven to be the cradle of many techniques and methodologies that have become mainstream over the years: OOP, Patterns, AOP, XP, Unit Testing, UML, Wiki, and Refactoring. Gaining its prestige with 3 academic tracks, OOPSLA Conference has managed to attract researchers, educators and developers every year. The event is sponsored by ACM.
Wrong name in summary by Balint Uveges Posted
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    Wrong name in summary

    by Balint Uveges

    Hi,

    There is a tiny mistake in the summary of this presentation. Gabor Karsai is mentioned as the panelists from Vanderbilt Univ. but in the video Tihamer Levendovszky is speaking.

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