[sklogic]

> These are functions, it doesn't get any simpler than that

Simplicity of the building blocks does not affect complexity of the resulting mess of code.

Look, Brainfuck have only 8 operators. It cannot get much simpler than that. Once you learn all 8 operators no new constructs require any learning. Does it help at all? No. You're stuck at a pathetic abstraction level.

Same with your functions. They're limiting your abstraction level, therefore making it impossible to make things simple. And your DSL example shows it in quite a dramatic way - it is a horrible mess and nothing but a horrible mess. It can be somewhat handy for the users, but the implementation is plain awful.

[incepted]

Show us what you think is a nice DSL then, because you keep waving your hands about DSL but you're not showing a single line of code to prove your point.

[sklogic]

I did it many times elsewhere in this thread already.

For example, this one: http://www.moserware.com/2008/04/towards-moores-law-software...

Or Nanopass itself, not just as a tool for building DSLs, but as an example of a nice and clean DSL (of course, if it could bootstrap itself it would have been even better):

https://github.com/akeep/nanopass-framework

Or everything you can find in my github repositories (username: combinatorylogic).