Domain-Specific Languages

From JVMLanguages

Domain-Specific Languages, also sometimes called Little Languages, are programming languages with limited functionality that typically encorporate aspects of a particular domain (e.g. web development, or data processing).

How to create a Domain-Specific Language

• Parse your language with ANTLR or JavaCC

External Resources

Online

• Fistful of Languages (http://littlelanguages.net/blog/), a blog about DSL's

Books

• Constructing Language Processors for Little Languages (http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0471597538.html)