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From: Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid>
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Subject: Re: How to get Ada to ?cross the chasm??
Date: Wed, 9 May 2018 23:15:27 +0300
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Date: 2018-05-09T23:15:27+03:00
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On 18-05-09 23:03 , Paul Rubin wrote:
> "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> writes:
    ...
>> [corporate jargon generator] If someone more ambitious than me wanted
>> to make the GUI and other changes necessary to make the things
>> changable on the fly, they could do so without altering the rest of
>> the program.
>
> I spent a little while looking into that and it doesn't seem easy.
> There are a few dozen phrase lists that could be made configurable, but
> there are also a bunch of different combining rules but if you want
> those to be configurable too, you end up designing a DSL to make such
> templates.  That's very easy in Lisp but not so easy in Ada.

It is easy to embed a DSL in Ada, and use the Ada compiler on it.

"Stop worrying and learn to love your Ada compiler!"

I use this technique frequently, when I want a more powerful DSL than 
OpenToken can easily provide, or want a DSL that can be metaprogrammed 
in Ada.

-- 
Niklas Holsti
Tidorum Ltd
niklas holsti tidorum fi
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