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Looking for a Solid Definition of DSLIn a discussion on mini-languages over on PerlMonks, one poster brought out a series of languages that I wouldn't consider "mini", though they do tend to be used as embedded languages inside a larger language. This poster wanted to include Turing Completeness as a requirement, stateing that if you don't, you may end up including pretty much any non-trivial OO API. I realized from this that I don't have a good definition of "Domain Specific Language". I'm certain TC shouldn't be a requirement, but I also don't want a definition that's too broad. In the past, I went mostly by intuition; Regular Expressions in Perl "Just Feels" like a mini-language to me, but obviously this lacks rigor. Is there an accepted definition of DSL or mini-language? By Timm Murray at 2004-10-12 16:19 | LtU Forum | previous forum topic | next forum topic | other blogs | 6684 reads
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