From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,c406e0c4a6eb74ed X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!wns13feed!worldnet.att.net!204.71.34.3!newsfeed.cwix.com!nntp.abs.net!rcn!feed3.news.rcn.net!not-for-mail Sender: jsa@rigel.goldenthreadtech.com Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ADA Popularity Discussion Request References: From: jayessay Organization: Tangible Date: 12 Sep 2004 12:36:48 -0400 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: DXC=mNMMh[0^Z>YX=1fdYHW9E\0R]m=BkYWIW:6bU3OT9S9Z\2Yl5Mm9A9Q^aM2i8keRm]7]JVUZ::bnP X-Complaints-To: abuse@rcn.com Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3626 Date: 2004-09-12T12:36:48-04:00 List-Id: "Alexander E. Kopilovich" writes: > jayessay wrote: > > > I submit that for good or ill (I believe good) the Common Lisp type > > system is an example of this sort of characterization. > > This is certainly OK (and perhaps even necessary) for a general > platform, on which various more simple and specifically targeted > languages can be built. Development of such domain-specific > languages surely require good expertise, but not so advanced and > rare as it is needed for development/maintenance of the platform > itself. Yes, I agree with this analysis. > I suppose that you meant languages of that kind in the following > passage from your previous message here in comp.lang.ada : > > (Message-Id: > Date: 03 Sep 2004 12:43:04 -0400) > > | ... The second is achieved by crafting a constrained narrowly > | focused domain specific language _within_ Lisp, which allows the > | programmer to then work at the level of the domain, _both_ > | syntactically as well as semantically. This is why Lisp macros > | (please don't confuse with any other kind of macro you've come across > | before) are such a big deal. Generally speaking, yes. /Jon -- 'j' - a n t h o n y at romeo/charley/november com