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  • Building Domain Specific Languages on the CLR

    In his latest article Ayende Rahien introduces internal DSLs as a means of creating Domain-Specific Languages without having to deal with the complexity of designing a completely new language. He compares different .NET languages as suitable host languages for DSLs and presents Boo as an ideal candidate due to its meta programming facilities, flexibility, and performance.

  • Much ado about Boo

    Boo is a OO-statically typed .NET programming language which in the spirit of Ruby or Python is licensed under an MIT/BSD license. Boo excels for building quick user interfaces and developer prototyping when using the boo's interactive shell. Andrew Glover's favorite reason for developing with boo, once compiled into byte-code it can easily be reused by any .NET based language.

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