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

[Jim Idle]

Language : Design Patterns ;

:)

Jim

On Aug 27, 2009, at 3:37 PM, Terence Parr <parrt at cs.usfca.edu> wrote:

>> 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.
>
> yep :)
>
>> I guess the problem is that "language design patterns" sounds like
>> you're designing languages.
>
> yeah, it's ambiguous. we could add a hyphen but... ugly
>
>> 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?
>
> Yeah, we sort of went that direction but something short. I really do
> like the three word title. We are then doing the implementation stuff
> in the subtitle at the moment. I guess that would be clear if the
> subtitle has the implementation word.
> T
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