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3/3/2006 7:05:00 AM
Check out Code Generation in Action. It's a good book on code generation that uses Ruby/erb/REXML/etc. Interestingly, it was the book that got me off of my arse and looking at Ruby........
>From: Sean Mountcastle <smountcastle@gmail.com>
>Date: Wed Mar 01 14:30:46 CST 2006
>To: ruby-talk ML <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
>Subject: Re: Can Anyone Recommend A Good DSL Book?
>Gary and Tom,
>
>Thanks for the pointers, I've read the AW AWK Programming Language and
>O'Reilly lex & yacc books. From the presentations I've seen on Ruby
>DSLs, it doesn't seem like folks are writing parsers -- it seems more
>like Lisp macros where the program is being written as its being
>interpreted.
>
>In the same way that Ruby's attr_accessor creates getter/setter
>methods for the specified symbols (instance variables), DSL 'gurus'
>have created similar constructs which implement the 'mini language'
>without the drugery of writing a parser/compiler.
>
>It looks like there are no "How to write DSLs in Ruby" books currently
>available or planned.
>
>Regards,
>Sean
>
>On 3/1/06, Tom Copeland <tom@infoether.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > You might want to read chapter 6 of The AWK Programming
>> > Language (Aho, Kernighan, Weinberger). The title of that
>> > chapter is 'little
>> > languages'.
>> > The chapter includes the following examples (in AWK of course):
>> >
>> > assembler and interpreter
>> > drawing graphs
>> > a sort generator
>> > a reverse-polish calculator
>> > an infix calculator
>> > recursive-descent parsing
>>
>> Along the same lines, the O'Reilly Lex and Yacc book (by John Levine and
>> several others) has some little DSL examples - a menu generation system
>> and whatnot.
>>
>> Yours,
>>
>> Tom
>>
>>
>>