DSLs in Action - Softcover

Ghosh, Debasish

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1935182455 ISBN 13: 9781935182450

Publisher: Manning Publications, 2011

Synopsis

Your success—and sanity—are closer at hand when you work at a higher level of abstraction, allowing your attention to be on the business problem rather than the details of the programming platform. Domain Specific Languages—"little languages" implemented on top of conventional programming languages—give you a way to do this because they model the domain of your business problem.

DSLs in Action introduces the concepts and definitions a developer needs to build high-quality domain specific languages. It provides a solid foundation to the usage as well as implementation aspects of a DSL, focusing on the necessity of applications speaking the language of the domain. After reading this book, a programmer will be able to design APIs that make better domain models. For experienced developers, the book addresses the intricacies of domain language design without the pain of writing parsers by hand.

The book discusses DSL usage and implementations in the real world based on a suite of JVM languages like Java, Ruby, Scala, and Groovy. It contains code snippets that implement real world DSL designs and discusses the pros and cons of each implementation.

Purchase of the print book comes with an offer of a free PDF, ePub, and Kindle eBook from Manning. Also available is all code from the book.

What's Inside

• Tested, real-world examples
• How to find the right level of abstraction
• Using language features to build internal DSLs
• Designing parser/combinator-based little languages

About this title

About the Author:

Debasish Ghosh, Chief Technology Evangelist at Anshinsoft, is passionate about programming languages and cooperative polyglotism. He has developed systems using multiple JVM languages and has designed DSLs using Java, Ruby, and Scala. Debasish is a senior member of the ACM and an active blogger on programming techniques and languages.

About this edition

• Publisher: Manning Publications
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1935182455
• ISBN 13: 9781935182450
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 375