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Domain specific languages
1. Domain specific languages
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DSL (
Domain Specific Language) is a small language notation for describing a problem that can be in some way automated.
2. Domains
A domain is an area with its own specific terms, etc.
business domain
marketing domain
financial domain
realty domain
banking domain
... and so on ...
3. Turing complete
A Turing (from Alan Turning) complete programming language is a language that can compute any computable function.
There are many programming notations and small languages, generally referred to as a DSL, that are useful but not Turing complete.
4. Embedded DSL
In many languages, such as C, there is a formatted print statement such as, in C,
printf.
printf("x=%d y=%f", x, y);
The mini-language or notation within the text string is a small DSL embedded in the language.
Many languages have regular language support built into the language as a small DSL.
The C# language has LINQ as a DSL built into the language/environment to make interfacing to databases easier (for the programmer).
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