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by Joker_vD
2059 days ago
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> Computers are good at parsing, And humans are even better at it, and actually seem to cope with typographically diverse syntax better than the uniform ones. So it absolutely makes sense to have a nice, heterogeneous, human-friendly syntax. As for writing custom DSLs... I always feel vaguely uneasy when I find myself writing, essentially, an interpreter/VM for a simplistic programming language in a form of a set of library routines/components that I then process to use to build my application logic out of. After all, I am already writing code in a rich programming language, why don't I just use it for my application logic in the first place? |
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I'd assume it's because that rich language isn't as well-suited to the problem domain as the DSL. I think one solution might be to come up with a more principled way of writing DSLs, that don't require you to revert to writing an interpreter or compiler "from scratch".