[antlr-interest] what's in a name?
David-Sarah Hopwood
david-sarah at jacaranda.org
Sat Aug 29 14:16:54 PDT 2009
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?
To be honest I can't see why the "DSL" is in there, since there's no
dependency in any of the patterns on the language being domain-specific.
It would be unfortunate if people didn't buy the book because they
think it's not applicable to implementing a general-purpose language
rather than a DSL.
How about "Language Engineering Patterns: Building Processors for
Domain-Specific and General-Purpose Languages"?
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