Comment Feed for Channel 9 - Expert to Expert: Martin Fowler and Chris Sells - Perspectives on Domain Specific Languages http://ecn.channel9.msdn.com/o9/previewImages/100/466964_100x75.jpg Channel 9 - Expert to Expert: Martin Fowler and Chris Sells - Perspectives on Domain Specific Languages Microsoft Olso Program Manager Chris Sells and DSL expert Martin Fowler discuss the history and future of Domain Specific Languages (DSLs). This was filmed at DevCon 2009, which took place on the Microsoft campus in Redmond, WA, USA. For those of you who don't know, Martin Fowler is a legendary software engineer and one of the industry's most accomplished speakers. For the past few years Martin has spent a great deal of time thinking about and implementing DSLs. He's viewed, by his peers and the industry at large, as the de facto DSL guru. You should most definitely watch his talk from this year's DevCon.  en Sat, 25 May 2013 23:41:20 GMT Sat, 25 May 2013 23:41:20 GMT Rev9 Re: Expert to Expert: Martin Fowler and Chris Sells - Perspectives on Domain Specific Languages  

Around 15:58 Martin says something about being at Intentional and seeing things that made Oslo look kind of 19th century.  When pressed for details, he couldn't pluck a named feature out of the air. I wonder if the interaction between the man and the machine seemed magical?  In the words of ACC, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." And magic is something that has to be seen to be recognized, not unlike indecency. 

 

posted by Jsoh

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Expert-to-Expert-Martin-Fowler-and-Chris-Sells-Perspectives-on-Domain-Specific-Languages#c633777283810000000 Tue, 12 May 2009 12:33:01 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Expert-to-Expert-Martin-Fowler-and-Chris-Sells-Perspectives-on-Domain-Specific-Languages#c633777283810000000 Jsoh Re: Expert to Expert: Martin Fowler and Chris Sells - Perspectives on Domain Specific Languages Interesting interview, especially the piece about Excel as a (sort-of) language workbench. I'm gathering that many in the DSL forefront see the future of programming as writing DSLs for specific platforms (i.e. Oslo), frameworks (i.e. Rails), or the actual language used for writing the code in a specific business domain (i.e. DDD). I find that an interesting proposition, though I can only imagine the number of DSLs we'll see as most programmers (or at least I do) like digging into the nuts and bolts and making things fit their own mindset.

posted by Ryan Riley

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Expert-to-Expert-Martin-Fowler-and-Chris-Sells-Perspectives-on-Domain-Specific-Languages#c633777298360000000 Tue, 12 May 2009 12:57:16 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Expert-to-Expert-Martin-Fowler-and-Chris-Sells-Perspectives-on-Domain-Specific-Languages#c633777298360000000 Ryan Riley Re: Expert to Expert: Martin Fowler and Chris Sells - Perspectives on Domain Specific Languages Martin Fowler, on C9?

Bloody awesome!

We want more Smiley

posted by Chadk

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Expert-to-Expert-Martin-Fowler-and-Chris-Sells-Perspectives-on-Domain-Specific-Languages#c633783202010000000 Tue, 19 May 2009 08:56:41 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Expert-to-Expert-Martin-Fowler-and-Chris-Sells-Perspectives-on-Domain-Specific-Languages#c633783202010000000 Chadk Re: Expert to Expert: Martin Fowler and Chris Sells - Perspectives on Domain Specific Languages My criticism of Oslo would be that it focuses too much on data and not enough on behavior.  I think that's what makes it "19th century". 

On the other hand, a focus on data sells, especially in the Microsoft space.  You just have to be prepared to be snubbed by the "intellectuals", who admittedly don't represent a huge market segment.


Another problem I have with Oslo is its use of a database as an artifact repository; something like TFS with version control would seem to be more of a fit.  A question: why don't you tell us to put our code in databases?  Is the DSL any different?

posted by mhedgpeth

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Expert-to-Expert-Martin-Fowler-and-Chris-Sells-Perspectives-on-Domain-Specific-Languages#c633801498120000000 Tue, 09 Jun 2009 13:10:12 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Expert-to-Expert-Martin-Fowler-and-Chris-Sells-Perspectives-on-Domain-Specific-Languages#c633801498120000000 mhedgpeth Re: Expert to Expert: Martin Fowler and Chris Sells - Perspectives on Domain Specific Languages It is my understanding that the DSLs, textual information, etc. are just text and therefore are more than suited to being housed within something like TFS. I think that the purpose of the repository being within SQL Server is because the creation of the structure is only half of the story. The other half, is the runtime consumption of the information stored witin that repository and even updating, inserting information into the database. It is probably more of a mental leap to think in terms of moving from the model being a design-time artifact to a runtime one in the form of model-supported or model-driven applications.

 

posted by Eric Giles

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Expert-to-Expert-Martin-Fowler-and-Chris-Sells-Perspectives-on-Domain-Specific-Languages#c633820135650000000 Wed, 01 Jul 2009 02:52:45 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Expert-to-Expert-Martin-Fowler-and-Chris-Sells-Perspectives-on-Domain-Specific-Languages#c633820135650000000 Eric Giles Re: Expert to Expert: Martin Fowler and Chris Sells - Perspectives on Domain Specific Languages Hmm, I want more!  Expressionless

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