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I know asciidoc from red and erlang, it's a nice language. Not sure why it is not as popular as markdown.
This is like the only programming language I could never learn. I just don't understand anything and I can't build any mental model of what's going on behind the hood
I wrote a paper on REBOL back in college. It is very interesting, but the syntax is definitely weird. You might think of the function call syntax as being sort of Forth-like, but with the tokens in reverse order. So like a Lisp, but without required parentheses. e.g. in the example send friend@rebol.com read http://www.cnn.com `read` knows that it takes one argument, and `send` knows that it takes two, so this ends u…
I think parsing there depends on the actual value of the current token. So if you assign send to another variable and use that the "parser" will still recognize that it takes 2 parameters.
It's an interesting design, definitely not something one sees frequently.
Languages that encourage making DSLs are a two-edged sword. On the one hand, you get to make a language that is more clear and fine-tuned to your use-case. On the other, you have an ad-hoc language with no support that you have to maintain along with the documentation (considering that you can't expect anyone else to know the DSL ahead of time). As I've gotten older, I've determined that well-designed APIs in a well-…
Languages that encourage making DSLs are a two-edged sword. On the one hand, you get to make a language that is more clear and fine-tuned to your use-case. On the other, you have an ad-hoc language with no support that you have to maintain along with the documentation (considering that you can't expect anyone else to know the DSL ahead of time). As I've gotten older, I've determined that well-designed APIs in a well-…
I've come to hate DSLs. With rare exception, almost every DSL has become a brittle subset of the parent language.
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Interesting, that at least explains why this happens a little bit. https://i.imgur.com/a/phd4lVr
Holy nanny state. The authors of a language have thought about using cryptocurrency, so it's flagged as a phishing and scam site? Literally 1984.
When I look at a programming language site, especially for a "new" language, I want a quick way to navigate to a reasonably sized decent code sample, ideally documented, showing off significant language features, idiomatic syntax and usage patterns etc... Sites which do this well (just from the top of my head): https://odin-lang.org/ immediate code sample visible "See the Full Demo" "See More Examples" https://ziglan…
There are at best two people working on the language, and they both don't have the time and have a very weird approach to docs (like posting extensive google docs or pastebin explanations, but never actually having any proper documentation)
Languages that encourage making DSLs are a two-edged sword. On the one hand, you get to make a language that is more clear and fine-tuned to your use-case. On the other, you have an ad-hoc language with no support that you have to maintain along with the documentation (considering that you can't expect anyone else to know the DSL ahead of time). As I've gotten older, I've determined that well-designed APIs in a well-…
Languages that encourage making DSLs are a two-edged sword. On the one hand, you get to make a language that is more clear and fine-tuned to your use-case. On the other, you have an ad-hoc language with no support that you have to maintain along with the documentation (considering that you can't expect anyone else to know the DSL ahead of time). As I've gotten older, I've determined that well-designed APIs in a well-…
this is a very important lesson. I remember the frustration of dealing with the Gradle and whatever was the name of the DSL used by Fastlane. Gradle especially kept changing so documentation was never really useful and there was zero help from the tooling
And at least the last time I used it in anger (which was, granted, perhaps double digit years ago), the docs started out with and loudly proclaimed "here's how you write your own tasks!" Wait, what? I want to have a build system do at least the 80% case with minimal/zero work; why am I jumping right in to my bespoke needs?
Not sure if this was just bad doc, or the tool actually didn't do the 80% very well then or what, but it's stuck with me.
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Even without the new spiffs, I still don't see the point of DSLs. From where I sit, I see exactly zero problems where I think that new syntax is what I need to be able to write a solution.
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