[antlr-interest] Language Design
Terence Parr
parrt at cs.usfca.edu
Tue Jan 31 13:45:37 PST 2012
hi Dave. You might find something interesting in my presentation at code generation 2011 last year.
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Automation-DSL
I had some advice on DSL language design and evolution.
Ter
On Jan 31, 2012, at 1:35 PM, Dave Thomas wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm reading the Beautiful Architecture book by O'Reilly and came across
> this: "a formal grammar consists of: a finite set N of nonterminal things;
> a finite set T of terminal things; a finite set R of replacement rules; and
> an initial thing S."
>
> I know we're all involved in language implementation, but there hasn't been
> much discussion on language design, an activity I need to do. Can anyone
> who has created a language from scratch point me to some practical
> resources to get me started? Yes, I've read the dragon book, I'm really
> looking more for a step-by-step from domain to DSL. I'm prepared to study
> linguistics if that's needed.
>
> Thanks!
> Dave
>
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