Avinash Meetoo: Blog

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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