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

[C. Mundi]

Terence,

After reading the entire manuscript, the original, "Language Design
Patterns," seems more appropriate than ever.  Many sections feel like
Language (Design Patterns) and others feel like (Language Design) Patterns.
So I say you can claim the associative ambiguity as a "feature."  :)

Instead, let me open another box o' monkeys (which will be in the notes I'm
sending to your publisher).  Domain specificity is a characteristic of a
language, and not necessarily of the tools used to implement the language.
I'm sure the publisher wants DSL in the title, in part because DSLs are Sexy
and Hot Right Now.  (And I would agree that's a good enough reason; I admire
effective marketing.)  But as I read the manuscript, I came away realizing
that -- apart from the choice of DSL-oriented examples -- the actual *
patterns* are for the most part broadly applicable beyond DSLs.  You might
convince me otherwise; you are the expert here.  I think your book is not
limited to DSLs, although that may be a good way to position it at Amazon.





On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 11:44 AM, 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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