http://www.martinfowler.com/dslwip/dsl.atom 2008-06-30T10:09:00-04:00 Martin Fowler fowler@acm.org http://martinfowler.com Updates to book in progress on Domain Specific Languages 2008-06-30T10:09:00-04:00 tag:http://www.martinfowler.com/dslwip/,2008-06-30:Update-to-DSL-book First draft of patterns on Dynamic Reception (overriding method_missing etc) and Annotation. 2008-06-11T11:43:00-04:00 tag:http://www.martinfowler.com/dslwip/,2008-06-11:Update-to-DSL-book Published drafts of a narrative on Code Generation and four code generation patterns. 2008-04-28T09:03:00-04:00 tag:http://www.martinfowler.com/dslwip/,2008-04-28:Update-to-DSL-book Published first draft of Tree Construction pattern. (This doesn't signal a shift in my writing focus, I'm not planning to focus on External DSLs just yet. I already had the example to hand and wanted to write it up to support some other posts I'm thinking of making.) 2008-04-22T09:24:00-04:00 tag:http://www.martinfowler.com/dslwip/,2008-04-22:Update-to-DSL-book Split the introductory narrative and added a narrative on general implementation notes (including some material on testing). 2008-04-08T09:09:00-04:00 tag:http://www.martinfowler.com/dslwip/,2008-04-08:Update-to-DSL-book Added the pattern Nested Closure. Also altered the opening part of the internal overview to talk more about fluent and push-button APIs. 2008-03-28T08:25:00-04:00 tag:http://www.martinfowler.com/dslwip/,2008-03-28:Update-to-DSL-book Added a write up for Symbol Table. The crux of why I've done Symbol Table at this point is to describe (with an example) the technique of using class and fields as a symbol table instead of the (more obvious) dictionary. Class and field allows static typing, particularly handy for IDE support with modern IDEs. 2008-03-06T11:47:00-05:00 tag:http://www.martinfowler.com/dslwip/,2008-03-06:Update-to-DSL-book Added a write up for Literal Collection Expression. 2008-02-21T08:03:00-05:00 tag:http://www.martinfowler.com/dslwip/,2008-02-21:Update-to-DSL-book Another long gap between updates - this time because I've been doing a lot of travelling and not been able to work on the book for the last month :-(. This change is a reworking of the basic patterns in the internal section. In particular I'm now founding the discussion of using functions on three function combination patterns: Function Sequence, Nested Function, and Method Chaining. I've also looked at using the notion of an informal grammar to help choose which technique is the best one to use. 2008-01-10T10:37:00-05:00 tag:http://www.martinfowler.com/dslwip/,2008-01-10:Update-to-DSL-book It's been a while since I've added anything - this isn't because I've not been working on things, just because I've been struggling with how to work with some particular material. But I now have it in a reasonable form. The new items are Computational Network, Dependency Network, and Closures. 2007-12-11T16:34:00-05:00 tag:http://www.martinfowler.com/dslwip/,2007-12-11:Update-to-DSL-book I've released Object Scoping. That pretty much gets me up to date with the material that I have in reasonable draft form. 2007-12-05T13:10:00-05:00 tag:http://www.martinfowler.com/dslwip/,2007-12-05:Update-to-DSL-book I've released the patterns for Global Scoping and Method Chaining. I also altered the definition text (in the intro) to put "computer language" as one of the definitional points of DSLs. 2007-12-04T13:04:00-05:00 tag:http://www.martinfowler.com/dslwip/,2007-12-04:Update-to-DSL-book As a result of an email conversation with Michael Hunger, I've changed the fluent java example in the introduction to one that uses java fields instead of strings to identify the elements of the state machine. 2007-12-03T15:25:00-05:00 tag:http://www.martinfowler.com/dslwip/,2007-12-03:Update-to-DSL-book I've started a yahoo group for discussion of the book. This is likely to only interest people who want to get into a discussion about how I put together the material in the book. As a result it's not a public list, but if you're interested in joining do send me an email. 2007-11-30T13:02:00-05:00 tag:http://www.martinfowler.com/dslwip/,2007-11-30:Update-to-DSL-book Released the expression builder pattern. 2007-11-22T13:50:00-05:00 tag:http://www.martinfowler.com/dslwip/,2007-11-22:Update-to-DSL-book Released a first draft of narrative on external DSLs. This is rather sketchier than I expect it will turn out to be - just enough to outline the flow the patterns. 2007-11-19T14:47:00-05:00 tag:http://www.martinfowler.com/dslwip/,2007-11-19:Update-to-DSL-book Released a first draft of narrative on internal DSLs. 2007-11-15T16:35:00-05:00 tag:http://www.martinfowler.com/dslwip/,2007-11-15:Update-to-DSL-book First publication of material - the introductory chapter.