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

[Martijn Reuvers]

What about 'Language Building Blocks'? Or maybe: 'Language Design
Building Blocks', though that's longer.

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 8:44 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?
>
> Ter
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