Mark, in my talk at RulesFest 2011 I've demonstrated that DSLs in their current form are indeed useful, perhaps not quite as easy to use as marketing hype promises. The current DSL process exploits regular expressions in a clever way, but this has limits. (Programming in something close to natural language has been an ongoing dream since Rear Admiral G. Hopper's fine achievement, but no remarkable progress has been made in half a century.)
I have presented DSL rules more than once to an audience, and it seems that getting non-geeks to appreciate rules is made easier this way. There is nothing in the current DSL that depends on DRL except the undisputed keywords delimiting a rule. I can see no reason why DSL shouldn't just stay the way it is: the documentation is fairly complete (much more than for some other Expert features) and it hasn't needed many bugfixes I'm aware of. Cheers Wolfgang On 29/01/2013, Mark Proctor <[email protected]> wrote: > How would people feel if we removed DSLs from 6.0? There is no decision > either way, but I wanted to see if people liked or disliked the idea. > > My reason for this is I don't believe DSLs in their current form, beyond > demo ware, are useful. They need a lot more work to turn them into guided > structured documents, we don't have the people to focus on that right now, > and no one from the community has taken this on. > > I'd rather see them removed, until they can be done properly. > > Mark > _______________________________________________ > rules-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/rules-dev > _______________________________________________ rules-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/rules-dev
