--- In [email protected], "Steve Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How is elisp a DSP but SQL isn't? One is focused on text another on > data. BPEL is another odd one to exclude from the DSL camp. > > If I see a DSL, or even a proposed DSL, that has this business centric > language then great. But I'm skeptical given the issues with business > language (lets call it technical English) and programming languages. > Everything I've seen so far talk about that and then creates yet > another technical programming language but potentially one that claims > having the word "trade" in the syntax makes it a financial services > DSL. > > To me the business centric DSL sounds like the philosopher's stone of > IT namely "the business will code this". > I see business concentric DSL more in line with 4GL's which we had for some time now. I think the question you're bring up is whether DSL should be an end-user programming tool or not. I think the terms are related but don't see it as iff condition. Cheers, HOzawa
