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by cabalamat 6386 days ago
> So, most of what we normally call "DSLs," (i.e. method chaining languages, overloading operators) aren't.

I don't call these things DSLs. Other people might.

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http://www.martinfowler.com/bliki/DomainSpecificLanguage.htm... distinguishes between Internal and External DSLs. Internal DSLs are a style of programming, usually non-idiomatic. External DSls require parsing.
> Other people might.

Other people do. Maybe it's not the proper terminology, but it's too common to ignore it.