Martin Fowler's BlikiA cross between a blog and wiki of my partly-formed ideas on software developmentParserFear- May 20, 2008 I talk quite a bit with people about DomainSpecificLanguages these days and a common reaction I get to external DSLs is that it's hard to write a parser. Indeed one of the justifications for using XML as the carrier syntax for an external DSL is that "you get the parser for free". This doesn't jive with my experience - I think parsers are much easier to write than most people think, and they aren't really any harder than parsing XML.I even have evidence. Well it's actually only one case,..http://martinfowler.com/bliki/ParserFear.html |