That'd be the ANTLR route that Seref suggested, wouldn't it? -----Original Message----- From: Discussion of advanced .NET topics. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of gregory young Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 10:18 AM To: ADVANCED-DOTNET@DISCUSS.DEVELOP.COM Subject: Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] dot simple......
Another thing you may want to look at is creating a DSL, this can often operate like a language but seem more natural to end users. On 4/25/07, Barry Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Nicholls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > does anyone know of a very simple dotnet language....I've been > > looking into rules engine type things so that relatively non > > technical operational people can write simple 'if then' type code, > > most seem to be overly complicated.....all I need is a very simple > > dot net language that can create a dll with a static procedure. > > Going from structured rules to "natural" text is easy. Going in the > other direction is not easy at all. I suspect either you'll end up > with something that has all the complexity of a VB-like language (i.e. > has an implicit required syntax and keyword set), or all the > complexity of a Perl-like language (i.e. lots of different syntaxes > and keyword sets and many ways to say the same thing, but occasional > weird failures and misunderstandings). > > Most rules-oriented solutions to this I've seen have graphical > interfaces, either table-based or flow-chart based, with possibly some > access to a back-end with more traditional programming-oriented syntax. > > You can't ignore that even though the rules might be simple, a > language that can describe them amounts to a programming language, and > programming languages with well-defined syntaxes happen to be the best > way to express that. There's no real way around it: people specifying > rules in precise, unambiguous language are programmers. > > -- Barry > > -- > http://barrkel.blogspot.com/ > > =================================== > This list is hosted by DevelopMentor(r) http://www.develop.com > > View archives and manage your subscription(s) at > http://discuss.develop.com > -- Studying for the Turing test =================================== This list is hosted by DevelopMentor(r) http://www.develop.com View archives and manage your subscription(s) at http://discuss.develop.com =================================== This list is hosted by DevelopMentor® http://www.develop.com View archives and manage your subscription(s) at http://discuss.develop.com
