Design Guidelines for Domain Specific Languages — HN submission

Thu, 09 Nov 2023 02:37:17 GMT

Design Guidelines for Domain Specific Languages (2014)

133 points; 52 discussion replies on HN. Paper and source history. A submission is not an endorsement.

Design Guidelines for Domain Specific Languages — mentioned by Twisol

Tue, 17 Jul 2018 21:03:08 GMT

(EDIT: I replaced asterisks with <AST> in the pattern below, since HN doesn't have a convenient way to escape asterisks last I checked.) > First, most of its syntax beyond the very basics like "X+" or "[^X]" is impossible to remember. It’d be nice to know what "(?<!X)" does without having to look it up first. I realize regex can be hard to remember, but I think this is a little overblown. "(? ...)" is the general form of an extended group -- something for which "special behavior" occurs. The character sequence following that determines what the special behavior is. In this case, "<!" means…

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Design Guidelines for Domain Specific Languages — HN submission

Design Guidelines for Domain Specific Languages — mentioned by Twisol