Domain Specific Languages (DSL) in Ruby

Today I was talking to Professor Thomas Plagemann of the University of Oslo about programming languages like Simula (invented, of course, by Ole-Johan Dahl and Kristen Nygaard there) and Ruby.

When I got back home, I started looking at some innovative programming paradigms and I came across two great articles:

Language Workbenches: The Killer-App for Domain Specific Languages? by Martin Fowler (of Refactoring fame)
Building a DSL in Ruby – Part I written only today by Ruby guru ~~Ross~~ Russ Olsen

Martin Fowler’s article gives a glimpse of the future of programming: Domain Specific Languages (DSL). And ~~Ross~~ Russ Olsen’s article shows how to use Ruby to create an impressive quiz application which implements a DSL and which is 100% configurable at run time.

I’m sure that you’ll be impressed by Ruby’s elegance and power.

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I am the Managing-Director of Knowledge Seven Ltd, provider of quality consultancy, support and training for open source software. I am also an amateur photographer and musician. I use a Google Nexus One Android smartphone, an Apple MacBook, Mac OS X, Linux and a lot of open source software. I am married to Christina and we have two wonderful kids, Kyan & Anya. In case you are wondering, Noulakaz means "our home" in my native language, créole.

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