Upgrade to Pro — share decks privately, control downloads, hide ads and more …

DSLs And Extension Languages

Sponsored · Ship Features Fearlessly Turn features on and off without deploys. Used by thousands of Ruby developers. →
Avatar for kognate kognate
August 10, 2012
Programming
130
1

DSLs And Extension Languages

Presented at CocoaConf Columbus 2012. See the code on github

Avatar for kognate

kognate

August 10, 2012

More Decks by kognate

See All by kognate
NSPredicates for Fun and Profit
Avatar for kognate kognate
2
240
CodeMash Prolog Talk 2012
Avatar for kognate kognate
3
220

Other Decks in Programming

See All in Programming
AWSコミュニティ活動は顧客のクラウド推進に効くのか / Do AWS community activities help customers adopt the cloud?
Avatar for shiro seike seike460
PRO
0
140
Going Multiplatform with Your Android App (Android Makers 2026)
Avatar for Márton Braun zsmb
2
420
一度始めたらやめられない開発効率向上術 / Findy あなたのdotfilesを教えて！
Avatar for Takashi Kokubun k0kubun
4
3k
事業会社でのセキュリティ長期インターンについて
Avatar for inlet-back masachikaura
0
250
[RubyKaigi 2026] Require Hooks
Avatar for Vladimir Dementyev palkan
1
200
의존성 주입과 모듈화
Avatar for Sungyong An fornewid
0
140
Coding as Prompting Since 2025
Avatar for Jimmy Moon ragingwind
0
830
(Re)make Regexp in Ruby: Democratizing internals for the JIT
Avatar for TSUYUSATO Kitsune makenowjust
2
180
Cache-moi si tu peux : patterns et pièges du cache en production - Devoxx France 2026 - Conférence
Avatar for Sébastien LECACHEUR slecache
0
240
mruby on C#: From VM Implementation to Game Scripting (RubyKaigi 2026)
Avatar for hadashiA hadashia
2
500
LM Linkで(非力な！)ノートPCでローカルLLM
Avatar for 瀬尾佳隆 seosoft
0
500
ハーネスエンジニアリングとは？
Avatar for kinopee kinopeee
10
5.3k

Featured

See All Featured
How to train your dragon (web standard)
Avatar for Monica Dinculescu notwaldorf
97
6.6k
More Than Pixels: Becoming A User Experience Designer
Avatar for Michelle Schulp Hunt marktimemedia
3
380
Save Time (by Creating Custom Rails Generators)
Avatar for Garrett Dimon garrettdimon
PRO
32
2.8k
Utilizing Notion as your number one productivity tool
Avatar for Mfonobong Umondia mfonobong
4
290
KATA
Avatar for Megan Lloyd mclloyd
PRO
35
15k
Digital Ethics as a Driver of Design Innovation
Avatar for Per Axbom axbom
PRO
1
260
AI: The stuff that nobody shows you
Avatar for John Nunemaker jnunemaker
PRO
6
570
JAMstack: Web Apps at Ludicrous Speed - All Things Open 2022
Avatar for David Neal reverentgeek
1
420
Abbi's Birthday
Avatar for Violet Bock coloredviolet
2
7.1k
AI Search:
Where Are We & What Can We Do About It?
Avatar for Aleyda Solis aleyda
0
7.3k
Agile that works and the tools we love
Avatar for Rasmus Luckow-Nielsen rasmusluckow
331
21k
SEO Brein meetup: CTRL+C is not how to scale international SEO
Avatar for Linda Hogenes lindahogenes
1
2.6k

Transcript

  1. DSLs and Extension Languages Nothing New Under The Sun 1

    Friday, August 10, 12

  2. Hi I’m Josh Ask Questions 2 Friday, August 10, 12

  3. You Will Not Leave Here Experts In Anything You Weren’t

    Expert In When You Arrived 3 Friday, August 10, 12

  4. I am here to learn and have fun 4 Friday,

    August 10, 12

  5. I think you are, too 5 Friday, August 10, 12

  6. DSL Not About Telephony 6 Friday, August 10, 12

  7. All Over The Place 7 Friday, August 10, 12

  8. JARGON 8 Friday, August 10, 12

  9. Adding Features to The Language 9 Friday, August 10, 12

  10. No Real Definitions for what is/is not a DSL 10

    Friday, August 10, 12

  11. SQL is very popular 11 Friday, August 10, 12

  12. Some DSLs are Turing Complete 12 Friday, August 10, 12

  13. Most Are Not 13 Friday, August 10, 12

  14. Most DSLs aren’t even really distinct Languages 14 Friday, August

    10, 12

  15. Y’all want a sweet? 15 Friday, August 10, 12

  16. Shibboleths 16 Friday, August 10, 12

  17. Extension Languages 17 Friday, August 10, 12

  18. Allow Easy Extension 18 Friday, August 10, 12

  19. TCL 19 Friday, August 10, 12

  20. Lua is quite popular 20 Friday, August 10, 12

  21. Not All Extension Languages are Turning Complete 21 Friday, August

    10, 12

  22. Like Lua 22 Friday, August 10, 12

  23. Don’t Hate, I Love Lua 23 Friday, August 10, 12

  24. That Last Slide was a Lie 24 Friday, August 10,

    12

  25. (Guile) 25 Friday, August 10, 12

  26. Emacs Lisp 26 Friday, August 10, 12

  27. Extension Languages allow for the whole to be greater than

    the sum of their parts 27 Friday, August 10, 12

  28. Cocoa Doesn’t Need It 28 Friday, August 10, 12

  29. See, another slide that is a Lie 29 Friday, August

    10, 12

  30. Cake! 30 Friday, August 10, 12

  31. Many Books On The Subject 31 Friday, August 10, 12

  32. Too, Too Many 32 Friday, August 10, 12

  33. Martin Fowler’s Book 33 Friday, August 10, 12

  34. Extension Languages? 34 Friday, August 10, 12

  35. Not So Much 35 Friday, August 10, 12

  36. You Don’t Have to Use YACC 36 Friday, August 10,

    12

  37. We’ll Talk About It 37 Friday, August 10, 12

  38. Why Bother? 38 Friday, August 10, 12

  39. Users 39 Friday, August 10, 12

  40. Programmers 40 Friday, August 10, 12

  41. Managers 41 Friday, August 10, 12

  42. Customers 42 Friday, August 10, 12

  43. Language Design is the Poetry of the Programmer 43 Friday,

    August 10, 12

  44. Very Few Find Steady Work Writing It 44 Friday, August

    10, 12

  45. Most Had To Write Some In College 45 Friday, August

    10, 12

  46. Your Peers think It’s a Waste Of Time 46 Friday,

    August 10, 12

  47. Code! 47 Friday, August 10, 12