[pro] Lisp and DSLs

[Peter Seibel]

I think the chapter on binary data types in PCL is a reasonable
example of a certain kind of DSL. Is this whole book about DSLs? I'll
be interested to see it. And glad they're getting at least one Lisper.

-Peter

On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 6:32 AM, Didier Verna <didier at lrde.epita.fr> wrote:
>
>  Dear friends,
>
> I'm starting to write a chapter for an upcoming book on domain specific
> languages. The chapter is called (tentatively):
>
> Extensible languages -- blurring the distinction between DSLs and GPLs
>
> GPL meaning General Purpose Language in this context ;-)
>
>
> My intention is to demonstrate how the task of implementing a DSL is
> made easier when it boils down to an extension or subset of your
> original GPL (hence reusing its infrastructure), instead of being a
> totally different language, only written on top of the other.
>
> Obviously, I'm going to illustrate this with Common Lisp, and I intend
> to speak of dynamicity (not only dynamic typing, but in general all
> things that can be deferred to the run-time), introspection,
> intersession, structural or procedural reflexivity, meta-object
> protocols (not sure about this one), macro systems and JIT-compilation.
> Also, more specifically to Lisp, reader macros (compiler macros maybe?),
> the condition system (and its ability to *not* unwind) and restarts.
>
>
> Right now, I would like to know if any of you have DSL "pearls", nice
> examples of DSLs that you have written in Lisp by using some of its
> features in a clever or elegant way. I would also gladly accept any
> point of view or comment on what's important to mention, in terms of
> design principle or anything else, things that I may have missed in the
> list above.
>
>
> Thank you very much in advance!
>
> --
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Peter Seibel
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