[antlr-interest] what's in a name?

Terence Parr parrt at cs.usfca.edu
Thu Aug 27 11:44:21 PDT 2009


Hi, so we're going back and forth on titles/subtitles for the new book  
on implementing DSLs and other languages.  Now, we're "Language Design  
Patterns", where Design is an adjective of Patterns; Language is not  
an adj of Design.  it's ambiguous though. Using Lang Impl Design  
Patterns was too long and unwieldy.  So, we added a subtitle about  
"Techniques for implementing DSLs".  Our marketing has been all about  
impl DSLs but the book became much more general.

The confusion is that the current title can be seen as about lang  
design.  We could do Lang Impl Patterns, but Kent Beck has a Impl  
Patterns book now that is totally different concept.

Publisher wants DSL in there somewhere.  Any ideas about title/subtitle?

Ter


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