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Re: On DSLs


From: Julien Lepiller
Subject: Re: On DSLs
Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2019 20:11:26 +0100
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Le 2 décembre 2019 20:05:57 GMT+01:00, zimoun <address@hidden> a écrit :
>Hi Ludo,
>
>On Tue, 26 Nov 2019 at 10:52, Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> That’s not true.  In some cases, people write something that’s
>actually
>> code (in YAML, in JSON, etc.) and there’s an interpreter running it.
>> There’s usually no tooling coming with that interpreter, in
>particular
>> no debugger, error reporting may not be optimal either, and the
>> semantics may be ill-defined (I’m getting close to Greenspun’s tenth
>> rule :-)).  It’s just that it’s not presented that way, but that’s
>what
>> it is.
>
>Out of curiosity, do you have examples about YAML or JSON with an
>interpreter running it?
>
>
>Thank for this interesting discussion. :-)
>
>Cheers,
>simon

Could this discussion be saved in the cookbook for instance? I'd like to have 
this kind of discussion on the approach of guix and ideas behind it somewhere 
more accessible than the ML archive. Does it make sense?



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