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Domain Specific Languages
By: Martin Fowler
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Pub. Date: September 24, 2010
Print ISBN-10: 0-321-71294-3
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-321-71294-3
Web ISBN-10: 0-13-210754-6
Web ISBN-13: 978-0-13-210754-9
Pages in Print Edition: 640
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Table of Contents
Preface xix

Part I: Narratives 1
Chapter 1: An Introductory Example 3
Gothic Security 3
The State Machine Model 5
Programming Miss Grant’s Controller 9
Languages and Semantic Model 16
Using Code Generation 19
Using Language Workbenches 22
Visualization 24

Chapter 2: Using Domain-Specific Languages 27
Defining Domain-Specific Languages 27
Why Use a DSL? 33
Problems with DSLs 36
Wider Language Processing 39
DSL Lifecycle 40
What Makes a Good DSL Design? 42

Chapter 3: Implementing DSLs 43
Architecture of DSL Processing 43
The Workings of a Parser 47
Grammars, Syntax, and Semantics 49
Parsing Data 50
Macros 52
Chapter 4: Implementing an Internal DSL 67
Fluent mand-Query APIs 68
The Need for a Parsing Layer 71
Using Functions 72
Literal Collections 77
Using Grammars to Choose Internal Elements 79
Closures 80
Parse Tree Manipulation 82
Annotation 84
Literal Extension 85
Reducing the Syntactic Noise 85
Dynamic Reception 86
Providing Some Type Checking 87

Chapter 5: Implementing an External DSL 89
Syntactic Analysis Strategy 89
Output Production Strategy 92
Parsing Concepts 94
Mixing-in Another Language 100
XML DSLs 101

Chapter 6: Choosing between Internal and External DSLs 105
Learning Curve 105
Cost of Building 106
Programmer Familiarity 107
Communication with Domain Experts 108
Mixing In the Host Language 108
Strong Expressiveness Boundary 109
Runtime Configuration 110
Sliding into Generality 110
Composing DSLs 111
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