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Domain specific languages: another silver bullet?

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Henry Balen,

James Lapalme,

Marc Frappier,

Kevin P. TysonAuthors Info & Claims

OOPSLA '07: Companion to the 22nd ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming systems and applications companion

Pages 1024 - 1025

https://doi.org/10.1145/1297846.1297972

Published: 20 October 2007 Publication History

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Every few years the computing industry sees the emergence of another "silver bullet". Our "trade" press follows the siren call, vendors become optimistic (at least the marketing departments), managers and developers think that all will be solved, and the customer is skeptical as usual. Is our industry fated to go through hype cycles, and what is the underlying reality?

This panel will explore this by looking at what may be a current "silver bullet" - Domain Specific Languages (DSLs). DSLs have become a focus of current interest with the increasing popularity of model driven development and dynamically typed languages. By allowing software engineers to focus on a specific domain it can be argued that DSLs bridge the gap between the business and implementation. Thus allowing us to produce better systems. Are DSLs really a "silver bullet", and what do we mean when we say that.

The panel will take the form of a non-traditional debate (modeled on a public radio talk show "Left, Right, and Centre"). We have three practitioners with differing experiences using DSLs taking three differing positions: 'for', 'against', and somewhere in the 'centre'. Unlike the radio show there will also be audience participation.

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OOPSLA '07: Companion to the 22nd ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming systems and applications companion

October 2007

241 pages

ISBN:9781595938657

DOI:10.1145/1297846

General Chair:
Richard P. Gabriel
IBM Research, USA
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Program Chairs:
David F. Bacon
IBM Research, USA
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Cristina Videira Lopes
University of California, Irvine, USA
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Guy L. Steele
Sun Labs, USA

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