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

[Terence Parr]

hi Gregg,

Mostly what I was trying to do in the title is piggyback on the famous  
gang of four design patterns book. I add the term language in front,  
and voila! Cool impressive sounding title ;)

T
On Aug 27, 2009, at 1:03 PM, Gregg Reynolds wrote:

>
> On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Terence Parr <parrt at cs.usfca.edu>  
> wrote:
> 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?
>
> Favor "engineering" or "construction" or the like over "design", and  
> go for something suggestive from linguistics or culture for the  
> title.  E.g. "Towers of Babel:  Building DSLs for a Chaotic World".   
> Ok, silly, but you get the idea.
>
> When I hear the "design", even though (or because) it covers pretty  
> much everything, I tend not to think of the design that goes into  
> implementation.  If you're really emphasizing design in  
> implementation, maybe something that highlights the role of design  
> as a distinct element of engineering, e.g. "Elements of Design in  
> DSL Engineering" (echoing Strunk and White).
>
> -g
>
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