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

[Sam Barnett-Cormack]

Terence Parr 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?

I love the "design pattern" element, as it is following the same feeling 
as design patterns - and you'd hardly be the first to port the idea to 
another domain.

I guess the problem is that "language design patterns" sounds like 
you're designing languages. How about "Design Patterns for Language 
Implementation", or are we *not* excluding langauge design, just wanting 
to make sure it's clear that implementation is there as well?

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Sam Barnett-Cormack