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The State of the DSL Art in Ruby

Presented by Glenn Vanderburg on May 08, 2009 Length 01:01:55
Sections
Development,
Architecture & Design
Topics
Ruby ,
Dynamic Languages ,
Language Design ,
Programming
Tags
DSLs ,
QCon San Francisco 2008 ,
Language Design ,
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Summary
In this talk Glenn Vanderburg discusses what the Ruby community has learned about building DSLs, and shows how to build state-of-the-art DSLs without going overboard.

Bio
Glenn Vanderburg is a consultant at Relevance focused on cutting-edge software development technologies and techniques, including Ruby, JavaScript, Ajax, and state-of-the-art development practices.

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Excellent by Hermann Schmidt Posted
Sides out of sync by Darscan Tyrell Posted
Re: Sides out of sync by Diana Plesa Posted
Re: Sides out of sync by Darscan Tyrell Posted
TLA by Ralph Siegler Posted
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    Excellent

    by Hermann Schmidt

    I enjoyed this talk very much. It's one of the rare examples where the speaker really has to say something for one hour without losing track or sinking too much into little details. With many talks on InfoQ I noticed that after 30 minutes basically everything has been said and the following 30 minutes only distract from the actual message that should come across.

    A lesson about how to do good presentations! I really learned something here.

    The slides are mostly out of sync though.

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    Sides out of sync

    by Darscan Tyrell

    Excellent talk, but the slides are very out of sync in the middle (as is the case with at least 2 other presentations that I watched on InfoQ) which is a terrible pity.

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    Re: Sides out of sync

    by Diana Plesa

    Hermann, Darscan,

    We have fixed the slide sync error now.

    Diana

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    TLA

    by Ralph Siegler

    Please always define a TLA (three letter acronym) when writing an article. The first sentence should have read "has learned about building Domain Specific Languages (DSL)". Then later references could use DSL without confusion about whether Ruby was used to make Dialogue Scripting Language or a Digital Subscriber Line or a Distributed Service Logic or a Dynamic Simulation Language

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    Re: Sides out of sync

    by Darscan Tyrell

    Ah, great news, thanks!

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