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SkyPuncher
9 months ago
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The Red Programming Language
I've come to hate DSLs. With rare exception, almost every DSL has become a brittle subset of the parent language.
paddy_m
9 months ago
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Sometimes you want a specific limited subset of the parent language, especially when you don't want to expose a huge possibility space to non technical users. Exposing only a limited subset can also be helpful to sandbox for security reasons.
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