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inactiveTopic A Custom Image Viewing Game for an Autistic Child
started 1/16/2003; 8:30:56 AM - last post 1/17/2003; 5:26:07 PM
Ehud Lamm - A Custom Image Viewing Game for an Autistic Child  blueArrow
1/16/2003; 8:30:56 AM (reads: 1959, responses: 1)
A Custom Image Viewing Game for an Autistic Child
Aside from being an inspiring story, this Python success story is about building a DSEL.

As such, the language is essentially a set python routines and classes. The article talks about using the __call__ method (to overload the function call operator), using keyword parameters etc.


Posted to Python by Ehud Lamm on 1/16/03; 8:31:49 AM

Ehud Lamm - Re: A Custom Image Viewing Game for an Autistic Child  blueArrow
1/17/2003; 5:26:07 PM (reads: 463, responses: 0)
From a PL point of view the work descirbed in this article is pretty naive (it is more a library than a real DSL). In a sense, this makes it even more interesting.

It shows that PL intuition can be helpful even for software projects that are do not invlove designing a full blown programming language or DSL.

This is a theme I try to mention here from time to time.